[Tutor] urllib confusion

[Clayton Kirkwood]

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>From: Joel Goldstick [mailto:joel.goldstick at gmail.com]
>Sent: Friday, November 21, 2014 2:39 PM
>To: Clayton Kirkwood
>Cc: tutor at python.org
>Subject: Re: [Tutor] urllib confusion
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>On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Clayton Kirkwood <crk at godblessthe.us>
>wrote:
>> Hi all.
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>> Got a general problem with url work. I’ve struggled through a lot of
>> code which uses urllib.[parse,request]* and urllib2. First q: I read
>> someplace in urllib documentation which makes it sound like either
>> urllib or urllib2 modules are being deprecated in 3.5. Don’t know if
>it’s only part or whole.
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>The names of the modules changed I believe in v3.x.

I don't think so because I've seen both lib and lib2 in both new and old code, and current 4.3 documentation talks only of urllib.

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>But you can save yourself a lot of trouble by using the excelent 3rd
>party package called requests:
>http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/

I've seen nothing of this.

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>Also, please use plaintext for your questions.  That way everyone can
>read them, and the indentation won't get mangled
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>> I’ve read through a lot that says that urllib..urlopen needs
>> urlencode, and/or encode(‘utf-8’) for byte conversion, but I’ve seen
>> plenty of examples where nothing is being encoded either way. I also
>> have a sneeking suspicious that urllib2 code does all of the encoding.
>> I’ve read that if things aren’t encoded that I will get TypeError, yet
>> I’ve seen plenty of examples where there is no error and no encoding.
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>> Why do so many examples seem to not encode? And not get TypeError? And
>> yes, for those of you who are about to suggest it, I have tried a lot
>> of things and read for many hours.
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>> Thanks,
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>> Clayton
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