Python 2 -> 3, urllib.urlopen (corrected the case)

[Ben Bacarisse]

Irv Kalb <Irv at furrypants.com> writes:

> Thank you!

You're welcome.

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>> Just a data point...  It works here:
>> 
>> $ python3 t.py
>> Response is:  b'156.99\n'
>> $ cat t.py
>> import urllib.request
>> fullURLWithParameters = 'http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=aapl&f=l1'
>> # read all the data
>> response = urllib.request.urlopen(fullURLWithParameters).read()
>> 
>> print('Response is: ', response)
>> $ python3 --version
>> Python 3.5.2
>
> I have not tried this on anything but my Mac.  I'm running 3.6.1
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>> For example, here:
>> 
>> $ wget -q -O - 'http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=aapl&f=l1' 
>> 156.99
>> 
>> Finally, wget -S shows that the resource has moved.  It is now at
>> 
>>  Location: http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=aapl&f=l1
>> 
>> I don't think this has anything to do with your problem, but it's worth
>> noting.
>
> That DID fix it.  I changed the URL to add 'download/' and it worked
> perfectly.

That's... interesting.

> Apparently, Python 3 differs from Python 2 in the way that it is
> handling a missing/forwarding URL, because the original code in Python
> 2.7 works perfectly.

Python 3 works for me.  I still suspect it's some system difference
rather than being, say, a 3.6.1 vs 3.5.2 difference.  What happens if
you change the URL to use https rather than http?

-- 
Ben.