title: Python Proxy Settings
body: <p>I was using the wikipedia module in which you can get the information that is present about that topic on wikipedia. When I run the code it is unable to connect because of proxy. When I connected PC to a proxy free network it's working. It also happened while using the Beautiful soup module for scraping. I have tried to set environment variable like <a href="http://username:password@proxy_url:port" rel="noreferrer">http://username:password@proxy_url:port</a> but when the run the code in IDLE it's not working. Please help.</p>