urllib.request.urlopen fails with https

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 10:27 AM, Gregory Ewing
<greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
>> (Basically,
>> what you're doing is downgrading the protection of HTTPS to something
>> nearer plain HTTP. That's fine for what you're doing, but any code you
>> give to students is likely to be copied and pasted into their
>> production code.)
>>
>> See if you can tie in with your OS's cert store first. If you can't,
>> look at "import ssl" and creating a custom SSL context that doesn't
>> verify.
>
>
> That's likely to distract and confuse students as well.
>
> I would suggest looking for a different example that
> doesn't require interacting with an https site.

That means going back to the original problem: "how do we get a usable
stock price API?".

My preferred solution is to just install 'requests', of course.

ChrisA