urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error unknown url type: https>

Question

Hello I am trying to learn web scraping. I installed Anaconda3 in Windows 10. Conda version 4.5.12. Python version 3.7.1.

I wrote following script which produces the mentioned error.

import bs4
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as soup
from urllib.request import urlopen as request
with request('https://google.com') as response:
    page_html = response.read()
page_soup = soup(page_html, "html.parser")
print(page_soup)

The error was from this line:

with request('https://google.com') as response:
...
...
raise URLError('unknown url type: %s' % type)
urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error unknown url type: https>

However, when I opened up my Anaconda prompt and executed line by line from above script it worked flawlessly.
Can Anyone help me understand what went wrong? How can I make the script run from the console without getting this error?

Answer 1

I solved the problem by reinstalling the anaconda library. On the installation process I chose to set up the PATH variable although it was not recommended. ( So i did not set the PATH first time ) So, basically I ignored the recommendation. And After that it worked. I do not know exactly what caused the problem first time. But now it is working.