Python 2 7 10 error from urllib request import urlopen no module named request

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I opened python code from github   I assumed it was python2 x and got the above error when I tried to run it   From the reading I ve seen Python 3 has depreciated urllib itself and replaced it with a number of libraries including urllib request    It looks like the code was written in python 3  a confirmation from someone who knows would be appreciated   At this point I don t want to move to Python 3 - I haven t researched what it would do to my existing code     Thinking there should be a urllib module for Python 2   I searched Google  using  python2 urllib download   and did not find one   It might have been hidden in the many answers since urllib includes downloading functionality   I looked in my Python27 lib directory and didn t see it there  Can I get a version of this module that runs on Python27   Where and how

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Try using urllib2   https   docs python org 2 library urllib2 html  This line should work to replace urlopen   from urllib2 import urlopen   Tested in Python 2 7 on Macbook Pro  Try posting a link to the git in question

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For now  it seems that I could get over that by adding a   after the URL

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from urllib request import urlopen  Request   Should solve everything

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You are right the urllib and urllib2 packages have been split into urllib request   urllib parse and urllib error packages in Python 3 x  The latter packages do not exist in Python 2 x  From documentation  -     The urllib module has been split into parts and renamed in Python 3 to urllib request  urllib parse  and urllib error    From urllib2 documentation -      The urllib2 module has been split across several modules in Python 3 named urllib request and urllib error    So I am pretty sure the code you downloaded has been written for Python 3 x   since they are using a library that is only present in Python 3 x    There is a urllib package in python  but it does not have the request subpackage  Also  lets assume you do lots of work and somehow make request subpackage available in Python 2 x    There is a very very high probability that you will run into more issues  there is lots of incompatibility between Python 2 x and Python 3 x   in the end you would most probably end up rewriting atleast half the code from github  and most probably reading and understanding the complete code from there     Even then there may be other bugs arising from the fact that some of the implementation details changed between Python 2 x to Python 3 x  As an example - list comprehension got its own namespace in Python 3 x   You are better off trying to download and use Python 3   than trying to make code written for Python 3 x compatible with Python 2 x

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You can program defensively  and do your import as   try      from urllib request import urlopen except ImportError      from urllib2 import urlopen   and then in the code  just use   data   urlopen MIRRORS  read AMOUNT2READ

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Instead of using urllib request urlopen    remove request for python 2   urllib urlopen    you do not have to request in python 2 x  for what you are trying to do  Hope it works for you   This was tested using python 2 7  I was receiving the same error message  and this resolved it

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Change  from urllib request import urlopen   to  from urllib import urlopen  I was able to solve this problem by changing like this  For Python2 7 in macOS10 14

[python] Python 2.7.10 error "from urllib.request import urlopen" no module named request

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