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

Question

This works in Python 2.x.

For Python 3 look in the docs:

import urllib.request

with urllib.request.urlopen("http://www.python.org") as url:
    s = url.read()
    # I'm guessing this would output the html source code ?
    print(s)

A Python 2+3 compatible solution is:

import sys

if sys.version_info[0] == 3:
    from urllib.request import urlopen
else:
    # Not Python 3 - today, it is most likely to be Python 2
    # But note that this might need an update when Python 4
    # might be around one day
    from urllib import urlopen


# Your code where you can use urlopen
with urlopen("http://www.python.org") as url:
    s = url.read()

print(s)

import urllib.request as ur
s = ur.urlopen("http://www.google.com")
sl = s.read()
print(sl)

In Python v3 the "urllib.request" is a module by itself, therefore "urllib" cannot be used here.

To get 'dataX = urllib.urlopen(url).read()' working in python3 (this would have been correct for python2) you must just change 2 little things.

1: The urllib statement itself (add the .request in the middle):

dataX = urllib.request.urlopen(url).read()

2: The import statement preceding it (change from 'import urlib' to:

import urllib.request

And it should work in python3 :)

import urllib.request as ur

filehandler = ur.urlopen ('http://www.google.com')
for line in filehandler:
    print(line.strip())