AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'urlopen'

[dont bother]

Hey,
I am trying to run the following example from
diveintopython

import urllib
sock = urllib.urlopen("http://diveintopython.org/")
htmlSource = sock.read()
sock.close()
print htmlSource

I have Python 2.3.3 but when i run the above code I
get the following error:

raceback (most recent call last):
File "urllib.py", line 1, in ?
import urllib
File
"/home/shalen/programming/python/tutorials/py/urllib.py",
line 2, in ?
sock =
urllib.urlopen("http://diveintopython.org/")
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute
'urlopen'

Anyone knows how to fix this and why I am getting this
error?

Thanks
Dont



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[Peter Otten]

import urllib
sock = urllib.urlopen("http://diveintopython.org/")
htmlSource = sock.read()
sock.close()
print htmlSource

I have Python 2.3.3 but when i run the above code I
get the following error:

raceback (most recent call last):
File "urllib.py", line 1, in ?
import urllib
File
"/home/shalen/programming/python/tutorials/py/urllib.py",
line 2, in ?
sock =
urllib.urlopen("http://diveintopython.org/")
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute
'urlopen'

This is a name clash. As your script has the same name as the library
module, it imports itself instead of urllib in the library.

To fix it, just rename to, say,

/home/shalen/programming/python/tutorials/py/examineurllib.py

Peter

 

[stewart]

Anyone knows how to fix this and why I am getting this
error?

well, the sample works fine in the shell. so the error is due to the
different way you refer to external modules when running from a file.

 

[scriber]

I had the same problem, simply because I named my file "urllib.py" so it was calling itself!... that's a new one on me heheee