Skip Montanaro <s...@pobox.com> added the comment: I suspect that was a conscious decision. Back when it was first written urllib2 was supposed to eventually replace urllib I think. Dunno if that's still true, but if so I could see why this feature wasn't added to urllib.urlopen.
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