urllib2

AttributeError(“‘str’ object has no attribute ‘read'”)

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In Python I’m getting an error: Exception: (<type ‘exceptions.AttributeError’>, AttributeError(“‘str’ object has no attribute ‘read'”,), <traceback object at 0x1543ab8>) Given python code: def getEntries (self, sub): url=”http://www.reddit.com/” if (sub != ”): url += ‘r/’ + sub request = urllib2.Request (url + ‘.json’, None, {‘User-Agent’ : ‘Reddit desktop client by /user/RobinJ1995/’}) response = urllib2.urlopen (request) jsonStr … Read more

Downloading a picture via urllib and python

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So I’m trying to make a Python script that downloads webcomics and puts them in a folder on my desktop. I’ve found a few similar programs on here that do something similar, but nothing quite like what I need. The one that I found most similar is right here (http://bytes.com/topic/python/answers/850927-problem-using-urllib-download-images). I tried using this code: … Read more

How to download image using requests

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I’m trying to download and save an image from the web using python’s requests module. Here is the (working) code I used: img = urllib2.urlopen(settings.STATICMAP_URL.format(**data)) with open(path, ‘w’) as f: f.write(img.read()) Here is the new (non-working) code using requests: r = requests.get(settings.STATICMAP_URL.format(**data)) if r.status_code == 200: img = r.raw.read() with open(path, ‘w’) as f: f.write(img) … Read more

Import error: No module name urllib2

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Here’s my code: import urllib2.request response = urllib2.urlopen(“http://www.google.com”) html = response.read() print(html) Any help? 10 s 10 As stated in the urllib2 documentation: 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. So you … Read more

What are the differences between the urllib, urllib2, urllib3 and requests module?

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In Python, what are the differences between the urllib, urllib2, urllib3 and requests modules? Why are there three? They seem to do the same thing… 1Best Answer 11 I know it’s been said already, but I’d highly recommend the requests Python package. If you’ve used languages other than python, you’re probably thinking urllib and urllib2 … Read more