Changing proxies with urllib

[David Leinbach]

Thank you

Radovan Garabik wrote:

> David Leinbach <leinbach at telus.net> wrote:
>  : If I am using urllib to open a webpage, how can change what proxy it
>  : goes through while my program is running?  Can I just change the
>  : environment variable?   Thanks
>
> No, (at least under unix) it is impossible to change the environmental
> variable from within script.
> However, you can change the values in os.environ dictionary,
> and urllib uses these values, so the resulting behaviour is exactly
> what you want.
>
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