URL as input -> "IOError: [Errno 2] The system cannot find the path specified"

[Gilles Ganault]

Hello

I'm trying to use urllib to download web pages with the GET method,
but Python 2.5.1 on Windows turns the URL into something funny:

========
url = "amazon.fr/search/index.php?url=search"

[...]

IOError: [Errno 2] The system cannot find the path specified:
'amazon.fr\\search\\index.php?url=search'

f = urllib.urlopen(url)
========

Any idea why it does this?

Thank you.

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:56:04 +0200, Gilles Ganault wrote:

I'm trying to use urllib to download web pages with the GET method, but
Python 2.5.1 on Windows turns the URL into something funny:

========
url = "amazon.fr/search/index.php?url=search"

This "URL" lacks the protocol! Correct would be http://amazon.fr… (I
guess).

[...]

IOError: [Errno 2] The system cannot find the path specified:
'amazon.fr\\search\\index.php?url=search'

Without protocol it seems that the 'file://' protocol is used and there
is no such file on your system.

Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch

[Gilles Ganault]

On 24 Oct 2008 18:02:45 GMT, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <bj****@gmx.net>
wrote:

>This "URL" lacks the protocol! Correct would be http://amazon.fr… (I
guess).

Thanks, that did it :)