How to send an HTTP request using the "urllib.request" module?

To send an HTTP request to the Internet, you can use the urllib.request.urlopen() function as described below:

r = urllib.request.urlopen(url, data=None, [timeout, ]*, cafile=None, 
   capath=None, cadefault=False, context=None)

where:
   url can be a URL string or Request object
   data is request body as a binary string. 

All urlopen() returns an http.client.HTTPResponse object. You can use its read() function to access the response body.

Here is a Python example on how to send a GET request and print the response body:

>>> import urllib
>>> r = urllib.request.urlopen('http://httpbin.org/get')
>>> b = r.read()
>>> print(b)
b'{\n  "args": {}, \n  "headers": {\n    
  "Accept-Encoding": "identity", \n    "Connection": "close", \n
  "Host": "httpbin.org", \n    "User-Agent": "Python-urllib/3.6"\n  }, \n  
  "url": "http://httpbin.org/get"\n}\n'

⇒ http.client.HTTPResponse Objects

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