Hi Juan, Take out your try/except block. It's "lying" in the sense that what's problematic isn't the failure to download. The exception handling is not doing well: it's hiding the true cause of the problem.
After you take the exception handler out, try again. The error message should be a lot more localized and tell you exactly what line number is raising the runtime error. Ideally, you should read the file-like object progressively, rather than suck the whole thing at once. Something like the following: ############################### import codecs import urllib.request urlString = "http://www.bankofcanada.ca/en/markets/csv/exchange_eng.csv"; rawFile = urllib.request.urlopen(urlString) decodedFile = codecs.getreader("utf-8")(rawFile) for line in decodedFile: print(repr(line)) ############################### shows that you can do the decoding on-the-fly. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
