Why can't I get Python's urlopen() method to work?

Your code is not the problem here. Do you have any Proxy settings in your IE? This says the python documentation for urllib.

Urlopen: """ In a Windows environment, if no proxy environment variables are set, proxy settings are obtained from the registry's Internet Settings section.

If you have wireshark, check what's being sent out and if there is anything coming back at all. It will help you debug the problem if you can see the GET request being sent. Also I remember having similar problem like this once, what I did was flush my dns cache (ipconfig /flushdns) and restarted.It fixed my problem.

It doesn't hurt to try I guess.

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