import urllib.request def download(url, num_retries=2):
print('Downloading:', url)
try:
html = urllib.request.urlopen(url).read()
except urllib.URLError as e:
print('Download error:' % e.reason)
html = None
if num_retries > 0:
if hasattr(e, 'code') and 500 <= e.code < 600:
# recursively retry 5xx HTTP errors
return download(url, num_retries-1)
return html url = 'http://www.google.com'
print(download(url, 3))