urllib.request is an abstraction layer built on top of http.client. It provides a standard API for accessing both HTTP and FTP servers, automatically follows HTTP redirects, and handles some common forms of HTTP authentication.
-So which one should you use? Neither of them. Instead, you should use httplib2, an open source third-party library that implements HTTP more fully than http.client but provides a better abstraction that urllib.request.
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So which one should you use? Neither of them. Instead, you should use httplib2, an open source third-party library that implements HTTP more fully than http.client but provides a better abstraction than urllib.request.
To understand why httplib2 is the right choice, you first need to understand HTTP.