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Windows 7, Python 3.4, PyCharm Community Edition 3.1.1

I'm new to Python. I want to get the html of a website. I use the following code:

from urllib.request import urlopen
response = urlopen('http://python.org/')
html = response.read()

But I get the following error:

urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error [WinError 10060] A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond>

I believe, the problem might come from this:

>>> import urllib
>>> urllib.request.getproxies()
{}

Any ideas, if that is the problem and how can I fix it?

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  • @ alfasin: Can you please tell me what is returned when you enter the following commands in the python console? >>> import urllib >>> urllib.request.getproxies() Commented May 23, 2014 at 10:21
  • It looks like your Puthon installation is brocken, because it fails to import the default packages. You should re-download the newest version and retry. Also, are you behind a proxy? Commented May 23, 2014 at 10:27
  • I don't have any reasons to believe that it is broken. I believe I just haven't set the proxies. I'm on a company computer, so I have no idea what the connection is... Commented May 23, 2014 at 10:31
  • possible duplicate of Python: URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 10060] Commented May 23, 2014 at 10:51
  • Those posts simply confirm that the problem is that there is no proxy, as I have said here, but doesn't explain how to set one... Commented May 23, 2014 at 11:00
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