urllib.request module fails to install in my system

Question

Tried installing urllib.request module using below command

sudo pip install urllib.request

but it returned

Downloading/unpacking urllib.request
  Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement urllib.request
Cleaning up...
No distributions at all found for urllib.request
Storing debug log for failure in /home/mounarajan/.pip/pip.log

How can I install this module?

Solution 1

urllib.request is only available in python3 branch. See the following post for more info. urllib.request in Python 2.7

Solution 2

In python3 you must use urllib3 module.

$ pip3 install urllib3

Or if you're using a virtual env:

$ pip install urllib3

Solution 3

In python 2 ,you simply use urllib for example

import urllib
htmlfile=urllib.urlopen("your url")
htmltext=htmlfile.read()

in python 3,you need to use urllib.request

import urllib.request
htmlfile=urllib.request.urlopen("your url")
htmltext=htmlfile.read()

Solution 4

For Python3 in cmd,

pip install urllib3

Or if you're using a anaconda:

conda install urllib3

Hope, this will help you

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Comments

[Mounarajan]

yeah i using python 3

[abcd]

what do you mean, "python3 filename.py"? what is "filename.py"?

[Mounarajan]

python3 is verson name and filename is the name of the file in which u save you program in your directory so python3 filename.py