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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Import Doesn't Import
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 22:11:39 -0400
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On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 17:40:25 -0700 (PDT), ryguy7272 <ryanshuell@gmail.com>
declaimed the following:


>Fetching URLs
>The simplest way to use urllib2 is as follows:
>import urllib2
>response = urllib2.urlopen('http://python.org/')
>html = response.read()
>
	Works fine in Python 2.7

PythonWin 2.7.5 (default, Sep 16 2013, 23:11:01) [MSC v.1500 64 bit
(AMD64)] on win32.
Portions Copyright 1994-2008 Mark Hammond - see 'Help/About PythonWin' for
further copyright information.
>>> import urllib2
>>> response = urllib2.urlopen("http://python.org/")
>>> html = response.read()
>>> print html
<!doctype html>
<!--[if lt IE 7]>   <html class="no-js ie6 lt-ie7 lt-ie8 lt-ie9">
<![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 7]>      <html class="no-js ie7 lt-ie8 lt-ie9"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 8]>      <html class="no-js ie8 lt-ie9"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if gt IE 8]><!--><html class="no-js" lang="en" dir="ltr">
<!--<![endif]-->

<head>



>
>It immediately produces this error:
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "C:/Python34/import_web_data.py", line 1, in <module>
>    import urllib2
>ImportError: No module named 'urllib2'
>
>
>ImportError: No module named 'urllib2'
>I'm telling Python to import because it doesn't exist and it throws an error.  I don't get it; I just don't get it.  If I'm working with R, I can import thousands of libraries with no errors whatsoever.  With Python, I just get thousands of errors with nothing working whatsoever.  I totally don't understand this language.  Import means import.  Right.  WTF!!!!!

	Well, you are using Python 3.4 -- there were significant changes made
in the transition from 2.x to 3.x. 90% of the stuff you find on the web is
probably written against Python 2.x -- if the example uses

	print "some stuff %s" % ("or other",)
if is 2.x, while

	print("some stuff %s" % ("or other",))
if could be 2.x (the extra () don't affect 2.x print statement) but is more
likely to be 3.x (though 3.x likely is also using a different formatter
than the old % string interpolation).

	The best documentation is the supplied help system -- the library
reference manual in particular. Glancing at that would reveal that 3.x does
not have a urllib2 module (and the documentation in 2.7.5 even states:
"""
Note
The urllib2 module has been split across several modules in Python 3 named
urllib.request and urllib.error. The 2to3 tool will automatically adapt
imports when converting your sources to Python 3.
"""
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