Fixing ImportError: cannot import name 'urlencode' in Python3

Problem:

Your python 3.x interpreter prints the error message

importerror.txt

ImportError: cannot import name 'urlencode'

ImportError: cannot import name 'urlencode'

As described by Fred Foo here on StackOverflow, Python3 contains urlencode() not in the urllib module but in urllib.parse.

Therefore you have to change

fix_urlencode.py

from urllib import urlencode

from urllib import urlencode

fix_compat_urlencode.py

from urllib.parse import urlencode

from urllib.parse import urlencode

If you intend to write code for both Python2 and Python3, prefer using:

fix_compat_tryexcept.py

try:
    from urllib import urlencode
except ImportError:
    from urllib.parse import urlencode

try:
    from urllib import urlencode
except ImportError:
    from urllib.parse import urlencode

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