urllib.request module fails to install in my system

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Tried installing urllib.request module using below command

sudo pip install urllib.request

but it returned

Downloading/unpacking urllib.request
  Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement urllib.request
Cleaning up...
No distributions at all found for urllib.request
Storing debug log for failure in /home/mounarajan/.pip/pip.log

How can I install this module?

maybe i'm missing something, but why don't you just install `urllib` -- i.e., `sudo pip install urllib`. does that not include `request`? — dbliss, Apr 01 '15 at 04:18
i'm just throwing darts at the wall here, but what about `sudo pip install urllib3`? would that get you what you want? — dbliss, Apr 01 '15 at 16:14
or perhaps you need to install a version of `pip` compatible with python 3? — dbliss, Apr 01 '15 at 16:15

score 17 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:32

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urllib.request is only available in python3 branch. See the following post for more info. urllib.request in Python 2.7

edited May 23 '17 at 12:32

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answered Apr 01 '15 at 04:18

Kozyarchuk

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yeah i using python 3 – Mounarajan Apr 01 '15 at 04:55
what do you mean, "python3 filename.py"? what is "filename.py"? – dbliss Apr 01 '15 at 16:17
python3 is verson name and filename is the name of the file in which u save you program in your directory so python3 filename.py – Mounarajan Apr 02 '15 at 08:04

score 8 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 04 '18 at 20:53

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In python3 you must use urllib3 module.

$ pip3 install urllib3

Or if you're using a virtual env:

$ pip install urllib3

answered Mar 04 '18 at 20:53

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score 6 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 07 '16 at 05:32

In python 2 ,you simply use urllib for example

import urllib
htmlfile=urllib.urlopen("your url")
htmltext=htmlfile.read()

in python 3,you need to use urllib.request

import urllib.request
htmlfile=urllib.request.urlopen("your url")
htmltext=htmlfile.read()

score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 19 '19 at 06:01

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For Python3 in cmd,

pip install urllib3

Or if you're using a anaconda:

conda install urllib3

Hope, this will help you

answered Feb 19 '19 at 06:01

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 09 '22 at 08:04

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For future reader (which I believe most of them are python3 users), urllib is already available on Python3 simply import urllib to your code.

answered Apr 09 '22 at 08:04

Dan

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urllib.request module fails to install in my system

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