> On Oct 14, 2017, at 6:46 PM, Ben Bacarisse <ben.use...@bsb.me.uk> wrote: > > Irv Kalb <i...@furrypants.com> writes: > >> Thank you! > > You're welcome. > > <snip> >>> Just a data point... It works here: >>> >>> $ python3 t.py >>> Response is: b'156.99\n' >>> $ cat t.py >>> import urllib.request >>> fullURLWithParameters = 'http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=aapl&f=l1' >>> # read all the data >>> response = urllib.request.urlopen(fullURLWithParameters).read() >>> >>> print('Response is: ', response) >>> $ python3 --version >>> Python 3.5.2 >> >> I have not tried this on anything but my Mac. I'm running 3.6.1 > <snip> >>> For example, here: >>> >>> $ wget -q -O - 'http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=aapl&f=l1' >>> 156.99 >>> >>> Finally, wget -S shows that the resource has moved. It is now at >>> >>> Location: http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=aapl&f=l1 >>> >>> I don't think this has anything to do with your problem, but it's worth >>> noting. >> >> That DID fix it. I changed the URL to add 'download/' and it worked >> perfectly. > > That's... interesting. > >> Apparently, Python 3 differs from Python 2 in the way that it is >> handling a missing/forwarding URL, because the original code in Python >> 2.7 works perfectly. > > Python 3 works for me. I still suspect it's some system difference > rather than being, say, a 3.6.1 vs 3.5.2 difference. What happens if > you change the URL to use https rather than http? > > -- > Ben. > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
Trying https (with and without the "download." part) results in the same traceback as I was seeing earlier. Thanks again, Irv -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
