it sort of does, though. Trying to use urllib2 is like pulling teeth

Spiritus · on Nov 15, 2016

Which is why you use httplib[1] for sending HTTP requests.

    >>> import httplib, json
    >>> conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("httpbin.org")
    >>> conn.request("GET", "/get")
    >>> res = conn.getresponse()
    >>> print res.status, res.reason
    200 OK
    >>> data = json.load(res)
    >>> print data
    {u'origin': '0.0.0.0', ...}
    >>> conn.close()

[1] https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/httplib.html#examples