On 13/12/12 12:47 PM, Ed Owens wrote: > >>> from urllib2 import urlopen > >>> page = urlopen('w1.weather.gov/obhistory/KDCA.html') > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > File > "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", > line 126, in urlopen > return _opener.open(url, data, timeout) > File > "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", > line 386, in open > protocol = req.get_type() > File > "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", > line 248, in get_type > raise ValueError, "unknown url type: %s" % self.__original > ValueError: unknown url type: w1.weather.gov/obhistory/KDCA.html > >>> > > Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong here? I have bs4 and urllib2 > imported, and get the above error when trying to read that page. I > can copy the url from the error message into my browser and get the page.
You may try the URL with 'http://' or 'https://' instead of 'w1.'. HTH. -- शंतनू _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor