ValueError: unknown url type
parsing, python, traceback, urllib, urllib2
Solution
You should first try to add `'http://'` in front of the url. Also, do not store the results in `print`, as it is binding the reference to another (non callable) object.
So this line should be:
page_contents = getpage("http://www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?ctid=5586")
This returns a file like object. To read its contents you need to use different file manipulation methods, like this:
for line in page_contents.readlines():
print line
Problem
The title pretty much says it all. Here's my code: ``` from urllib2 import urlopen as getpage print = getpage("www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?ctid=5586") ``` and here's the traceback error I get: ``` Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:/Users/**/Dropbox/Dev/ComServ/citetest.py", line 2, in <module> contents = getpage("www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?ctid=5586") File "C:\Python25\lib\urllib2.py", line 121, in urlopen return _opener.open(url, data) File "C:\Python25\lib\urllib2.py", line 366, in open protocol = req.get_type() File "C:\Python25\lib\urllib2.py", line 241, in get_type raise ValueError, "unknown url type: %s" % self.__original ValueError: unknown url type: www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?ctid=5586 ``` My best guess is that urllib can't retrieve data from untidy php URLs. if this is the case, is there a work around? If not, what am I doing wrong?