The urllib and urllib2 libraries have been cleaned up for Python 3, moving various disparate parts into a clear package hierarchy. The APIs themselves haven't changed all that much. It's mostly a tightening of the naming conventions.

requests itself remains the better choice for handling your HTTP client needs in Python 3.

The urllib and urllib2 libraries have been cleaned up for Python 3, moving various disparate parts into a clear package hierarchy. The APIs themselves haven't changed all that much. It's mostly a tightening of the naming conventions.

You only need to compare the Python 2 urllib2 documentation with the urllib.request page for Python 3 (with only exceptions moved to request.error) to see that the basic functionality has not been updated.

requests itself remains the better choice for handling your HTTP client needs in Python 3.