Re: [Tutor] urllib ... lost novice's question

2017-05-10 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 10/05/17 17:06, Rafael Knuth wrote: >>> Then, there is another package, along with a dozen other >>> urllib-related packages (such as aiourllib). >> >> Again, where are you finding these? They are not in >> the standard library. Have you been installing other >> packages that may have their own

Re: [Tutor] urllib ... lost novice's question

2017-05-10 Thread Rafael Knuth
>> Then, there is another package, along with a dozen other >> urllib-related packages (such as aiourllib). > > Again, where are you finding these? They are not in > the standard library. Have you been installing other > packages that may have their own versions maybe? they are all available via P

Re: [Tutor] urllib ... lost novice's question

2017-05-09 Thread Mats Wichmann
this is one of those things where if what you want is simple, they're all usable, and easy. if not, some are frankly horrid. requests is the current hot module. go ahead and try it. (urllib.request is not from requests, it's from urllib) On May 8, 2017 9:23:15 AM MDT, Rafael Knuth wrote: >Whic

Re: [Tutor] urllib ... lost novice's question

2017-05-09 Thread Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer
As a side note see a tutorial on urllib and requests and try them at the same time see for python 3.x; 3.4 or 3.6 also see the data type received by the different combinations, when you should use .read() etc also use utf-8 or unicode like .decode("utf8") Well play around fool mess with it, fee

Re: [Tutor] urllib ... lost novice's question

2017-05-08 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 08/05/17 16:23, Rafael Knuth wrote: > Which package should I use to fetch and open an URL? > I am using Python 3.5 and there are presently 4 versions: > > urllib2 > urllib3 > urllib4 > urllib5 I don't know where you are getting those from but the standard install of Python v3.6 only has urllib

[Tutor] urllib ... lost novice's question

2017-05-08 Thread Rafael Knuth
Which package should I use to fetch and open an URL? I am using Python 3.5 and there are presently 4 versions: urllib2 urllib3 urllib4 urllib5 Common sense is telling me to use the latest version. Not sure if my common sense is fooling me here though ;-) Then, there is another package, along wit