urllib
and urllib2are both Python modules that do URL request related stuff but offer different functionalities. Their two most significant differences are listed below:
urllib 和urllib2都是接受URL请求的相关模块,但是提供了不同的功能。两个最显著的不同如下:
urllib2
can accept aRequest
object to set the headers for a URL request,urllib
accepts only a URL. That means, you cannot masquerade your User Agent string etc.urllib2可以接受一个Request类的实例来设置URL请求的headers,urllib仅可以接受URL。这意味着,你不可以伪装你的User Agent字符串等。
urllib
provides theurlencode
method which is used for the generation of GET query strings,urllib2
doesn't have such a function. This is one of the reasons whyurllib
is often used along withurllib2
.urllib提供urlencode方法用来GET查询字符串的产生,而urllib2没有。这是为何urllib常和urllib2一起使用的原因。