urllib2 redirect error

[Sumit Ray]

Hi,

 I've tried versions of the following but continue to get errors:

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url = 'https://www.usps.com/send/official-abbreviations.htm'
request = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPRedirectHandler).open(url)
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Generates an exception:
urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 301: The HTTP server returned a redirect
error that would lead to an infinite loop.
The last 30x error message was:
Moved Permanently


The following using the requests library hangs:
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response = requests.get(url)
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I'm fresh out of ideas and any suggestions you may have would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Sumit
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