Modulenotfounderror: no module named ‘urllib2’ [Solved]

Now here are the following solutions which you can use to fix this error.

• Solution 1: Use import urllib.<module> 

  Since the urllib2 has been crossed several modules in Python 3 namely urllib.request and urllib.error.
  
  As a result, the import failed to locate any module named urllib2.
  
  So here is how to import this module with the proper function.
  
  1. Using urlopen() function, then you have to import urllib.request module.
  
  
  
  The output would be like this:
  
  
  
  2. If you are using the urlparse() function, then you have to import urllib.parse module.
  
  Example:
  
  
  
  See the output below:
  
  
  
  

• Solution 2: Fix Using try and except block

  If you are unsure which version of Python is being used and want your script to work with both Python 2 and Python 3, include a try and except block.
  
  Here is the syntax on how to do it:
  
  
  
  So for instance we will use the urlopen() function, and we will use the try and except block as follows:
  
  
  
  The code above explains that for the Python 2 import module, and assign it an alias name within a try block.
  
  In the preceding example, we named an alias req.
  
  Then Import the Python3 module and give it the same alias name as in the try block in the except block.
  
  The alias name req will be assigned to any import statement that is used. We can use this alias to access the program’s functions.
  
  So here is the output of the code above:
  
  

• Solution 3: Using Python 2to3 Tool

  When you upgrade to Python 3, you can use the 2to3 module to automatically update your import statements to Python 3.
  
  To do this do the following commands:
  
  Open your terminal and execute the following command to install 2to3.
  pip install 2to3
  pip3 install 2to3
  python -m pip install 2to3
  python3 -m pip install 2to3
  py -m pip install 2to3
  
  Then you can update the urllib import statements with the subsequent command.
  2to3 -w example.py
  
  Make sure to replace example.py with the actual name of the file.
  
  Now use the following command to move an entire project from one directory to another.
  2to3 –output-dir=python3-version/mycode -W -n python2-version/mycode
  
  The output directory will store your Python3-compatible code.