Opening Local File Works with urllib but not with urllib2

python, urllib, urllib2

Solution

Just put `"file://"` in front of the path

>>> import urllib2
>>> urllib2.urlopen("file:///etc/debian_version").read()
'wheezy/sid\n'

Problem

I'm trying to open a local file using urllib2. How can I go about doing this? When I try the following line with urllib: ``` resp = urllib.urlopen(url) ``` it works correctly, but when I switch it to: ``` resp = urllib2.urlopen(url) ``` I get: ``` ValueError: unknown url type: /path/to/file ``` where that file definitely does exit. Thanks!

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