ImportError: cannot import name 'Request' from 'urllib2' (unknown location) - Python

If you have encountered the ImportError message with the cannot import name 'Request' from 'urllib2' (unknown location) error in Python, it most likely means that you are using outdated or deprecated code. The urllib2 module has been split into urllib.request and urllib.error since Python 3.x.

You can fix this error by modifying your code to use the correct module. Here is an example:

import urllib.request

url = "https://www.example.com"
req = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
print(req.read())

In this example, we first import the urllib.request module, which replaced urllib2 in Python 3.x. We then define a url variable with the address of a website, and use the urllib.request.urlopen() method to retrieve the website's content.

If you still need to use urllib2, and you are using Python 2.x, you can import the module like this:

import urllib2

url = "https://www.example.com"
req = urllib2.urlopen(url)
print(req.read())

Note that this approach will not work in Python 3.x, and you will need to use the urllib.request module instead.