urllib.open('http://www.redherring.com/')

[Jeremy Hylton]

>>>>> "AP" == apederse  <apederse at my-deja.com> writes:

  AP> In article <KOUg6.14337$AH6.2082159 at newsc.telia.net>,
  AP>   "Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik at effbot.org> wrote:
  >> Andrew Kuchling wrote:
  >> > I don't believe urllib or httplib were massively rewritten for
  >> > 2.0 (nor will they be in 2.1), so if it's a bug, it's probably
  >> > still there.
  >>
  >> on my box, it sometimes work under 1.5.2, and never works under
  >> an unmodified 2.0 installation.
  >>
  >> however, the following hack works for both versions (note the
  >> explicit socket shutdown).

  AP> is it possible to do a similar fix to urllib? (For convenience
  AP> reasons I always use urllib in my applications...)

  AP> btw. I'm not very familiar with how the Python community works,
  AP> but I'm thinking at this point, shouldn't whoever that has been
  AP> involved in the programming of httplib and urllib be informed
  AP> about the problems?

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Jeremy