urllib.request module fails to install in my system

Question

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?

Discuss

maybe i'm missing something, but why don't you just install urllib -- i.e., sudo pip install urllib. does that not include request? – Atherton

it also throws same error – Discuss

i'm just throwing darts at the wall here, but what about sudo pip install urllib3? would that get you what you want? – Atherton

or perhaps you need to install a version of pip compatible with python 3? – Atherton

Answer 1

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

Comedic

yeah i using python 3 – Discuss

what do you mean, "python3 filename.py"? what is "filename.py"? – Atherton

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 – Discuss

Answer 2

In python3 you must use urllib3 module.

$ pip3 install urllib3

Or if you're using a virtual env:

$ pip install urllib3

Asepsis

Answer 3

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()

Pantomime

Answer 4

For Python3 in cmd,

pip install urllib3

Or if you're using a anaconda:

conda install urllib3

Hope, this will help you

Stodder

Answer 5

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

Anisaanise