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Python GUI Programming with Tkinter
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Python GUI Programming with Tkinter

by Alan D. Moore
May 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
452 pages
11h 26m
English
Packt Publishing
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Basic downloading with urllib.request

The urllib.request module is a Python module for generating HTTP requests. It contains a number of functions and classes for generating HTTP requests, the most basic of which is the urlopen() function. The urlopen() function can create a GET or POST request and send it to a remote server.

Let's explore how urllib works; open a Python shell and execute the following commands:

>>> from urllib.request import urlopen
>>> response = urlopen('http://packtpub.com')

The urlopen() function takes, at a minimum, a URL string. By default, it makes a GET request to the URL and returns an object that wraps the response received from the server. This response object exposes metadata or content received from the server, ...

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