AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'urlretrieve' in window subsystem ubuntu bash for tensorflow

[Kev Dwyer]

Ho Yeung Lee wrote:

> i use window subsystem ubuntu
> and install python 3 and tensorflow
> 
> then when try deep learning
> 
> https://www.tensorflow.org/tutorials/wide_and_deep
> 
> got error when urlretrieve local directory in ubuntu in window
> 
> tried urllib3 still have error
> 
> import tempfile
> import pandas as pd
> import urllib as urllib
> import os
> 
> model_dir = tempfile.mkdtemp()
> m = tf.contrib.learn.DNNLinearCombinedClassifier(
>     model_dir=model_dir,
>     linear_feature_columns=wide_columns,
>     dnn_feature_columns=deep_columns,
>     dnn_hidden_units=[100, 50])
> 
> ...
> 
> urllib.urlretrieve(r"/mnt/c/Users/hello/Documents/data.csv",
> train_file.name)
> urllib.urlretrieve(r"/mnt/c/Users/hello/Documents/dataTest.csv",
> test_file.name)
> 
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'urlretrieve'


If you're using python3, you need to do:

from urllib.request import urlretrieve