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Author eric.araujo
Recipients Valery.Khamenya, docs@python, eric.araujo, ezio.melotti, orsenthil, terry.reedy
Date 2011-09-17.15:31:04
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[Terry]
> But when I add 'http:www.python.org' as an argument, I get
> urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error no host given>

Your URI lacks a host (netloc, in RFC parlance) component:
>>> urllib.parse.urlparse('http:python.org')
ParseResult(scheme='http', netloc='', path='python.org', params='', query='', fragment='')
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