[Python-Dev] urllib bug in Python 3.2.1?

Ned Deily nad at acm.org
Mon Aug 1 01:06:48 CEST 2011


In article <4E35DC94.2090208 at mrabarnett.plus.com>,
 MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> Someone over at StackOverflow has a problem with urlopen in Python 3.2.1:
> 
>  
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6892573/problem-with-urlopen/6892843#689284
> 3
> 
> This is the code:
> 
>      from urllib.request import urlopen
>      f = 
> urlopen('http://online.wsj.com/mdc/public/page/2_3020-tips.html?mod=topnav_2_3
> 000')
>      page = f.read()
>      f.close()
> 
> With Python 3.1 and Python 3.2.1 it works OK, but with Python 3.2.1 the
> read returns an empty string (I checked it myself).

http://bugs.python.org/issue12576

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org



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