Having issues with python pip urllib.request - anyone know how to fix common errors? or Best practice

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403s with python pip urllib.request? Sounds like you need headers. Some sites block bare requests.

Try this:

```python
req = urllib.request.Request(
'https://example.com',
headers={'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'}
)
response = urllib.request.urlopen(req)
```

No more 403s (hopefully).

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