AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'request'

Question

When I run the following code in Python 3.3:

import urllib
tempfile = urllib.request.urlopen("http://yahoo.com")

I get the following error:

I did this too to verify:

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

The urllib module has been split into parts and renamed in Python 3 to urllib.request, urllib.parse, and urllib.error.

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Import urllib.request instead of urllib.

import urllib.request

Answer 2

Interestingly, I noticed some IDE-depending behavior.

Both Spyder and PyCharm use the same interpreter on my machine : in PyCharm I need to do

import urllib.request

while in Spyder,

import urllib

does fine

Answer 3

If this is on PyCharm, as was mine, make sure your file name isn't urllib.py.