Need to install urllib2 for Python 3.5.1

Need to install urllib2 for Python 3.5.1

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You cant, and you dont need to.

urllib2 is the name of the library included in Python 2. You can use the urllib.request library included with Python 3, instead. The urllib.request library works the same way urllib2 works in Python 2. Because it is already included you dont need to install it.

If you are following a tutorial that tells you to use urllib2 then youll find youll run into more issues. Your tutorial was written for Python 2, not Python 3. Find a different tutorial, or install Python 2.7 and continue your tutorial on that version. Youll find urllib2 comes with that version.

Alternatively, install the requests library for a higher-level and easier to use API. Itll work on both Python 2 and 3.

Acording to the docs:

Note The urllib2 module has been split across several modules in Python 3 named urllib.request and urllib.error. The 2to3 tool will automatically adapt imports when converting your sources to Python 3.

So it appears that it is impossible to do what you want but you can use appropriate python3 functions from urllib.request.

Need to install urllib2 for Python 3.5.1

In Python 3, urllib2 was replaced by two in-built modules named urllib.request and urllib.error

Adapted from source

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So replace this:

import urllib2

With this:

import urllib.request as urllib2