[IronPython] Bug in urllib?

Wed Jul 26 21:43:15 CEST 2006

Thanks Bruce - it's not a huge prob for me right now - I was just trying to
come up with a benchmark script for you guys to use to test BeautifulSoup
performance. Will look at doing it with text files rather than urls
tomorrow.

On 7/26/06, Bruce Christensen <t-bruch at microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>  This is a bug. It has never worked—although it would be great if it did.
> As noted in socket.__doc__, socket.makefile() (which urllib.urlopen()
> depends on) is not implemented. We're aware of the problem, and I've filed a
> bug at
> http://www.codeplex.com/WorkItem/View.aspx?ProjectName=IronPython&WorkItemId=1368to track it.
>
>
>
> Here's the long technical explanation why makefile() is missing: CPython
> actually implements the socket module in two parts: _socket.pyd (the main
> implementation written in C) and socket.py (a thin wrapper written in
> Python). We originally planned to implement only the _socket module (in C#)
> and have people use it with the standard socket.py module. However, we
> discovered that socket.py depends on CPython's refcounting garbage
> collector work correctly, and so we had to modify our socket module to work
> without socket.py. Unfortunately, makefile() is one of the things that
> socket.py provides, and we haven't had time yet to implement it.
>
>
>
> --Bruce
>
>
>
> *From:* users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com [mailto:
> users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com] *On Behalf Of *Mike Raath
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 26, 2006 12:53 AM
> *To:* Discussion of IronPython
> *Subject:* [IronPython] Bug in urllib?
>
>
>
> I'm getting an error trying to use urllib - AttributeError: 'socket'
> object has no attribute 'makefile' Using 1.0 RC1. Not sure if this has
> ever worked - get NotImplementedError: getaddrinfo() is not currently
> implemented in the Beta 9.
>
> >>> import sys
> >>> sys.path.append("C:\\Python24\\Lib")
> >>> import urllib
> >>> f = urllib.urlopen("http://www.microsoft.com ")
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File , line 0, in <stdin>##151
>   File C:\Python24\Lib\urllib.py, line 82, in urlopen
>   File C:\Python24\Lib\urllib.py, line 194, in open
>   File C:\Python24\Lib\urllib.py, line 316, in open_http
>   File C:\Python24\Lib\httplib.py, line 1150, in getreply
>   File C:\Python24\Lib\httplib.py, line 863, in getresponse
>   File C:\Python24\Lib\httplib.py, line 275, in __init__
> AttributeError: 'socket' object has no attribute 'makefile'
>
> Same on CPython 2.4 gives:
> >>> import sys
> >>> sys.path.append("C:\\Python24\\Lib")
> >>> import urllib
> >>> f = urllib.urlopen(" http://www.microsoft.com")
> >>> print f.read()
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" >
>
> <html dir="ltr" lang="en">
> <head>
> <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" >
> <!--TOOLBAR_EXEMPT-->
> (etc.....)
>
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