urllib bug?

[Dilton McGowan II]

"Steve Clift" <sgclift at earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:mailman.1030848662.20745.python-list at python.org...
>
> Is this *really* a urllib bug, or am I missing something blindingly
obvious?
>
>   Python 2.2.1 (#34, Apr  9 2002, 19:34:33) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
>   Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>   IDLE 0.8 -- press F1 for help
>   >>> import urllib
>   >>> f = urllib.urlopen('http://www.python.org')
>   Traceback (most recent call last):
>     File "<pyshell#4>", line 1, in ?
>       urllib.urlopen('http://www.python.org')
>     File "C:\PROGRAM FILES\PYTHON22\lib\urllib.py", line 73, in urlopen
>       return _urlopener.open(url)
>     File "C:\PROGRAM FILES\PYTHON22\lib\urllib.py", line 178, in open
>       return getattr(self, name)(url)
>     File "C:\PROGRAM FILES\PYTHON22\lib\urllib.py", line 276, in open_http
>       if not host: raise IOError, ('http error', 'no host given')
>   IOError: [Errno http error] no host given
>
> Fails the same way with 2.1. Works OK with 1.5.2 and (IIRC) 2.0.
>
> -Steve
>

Works on Windows 2000 using Idle, PythonWin and Cygwin Python all version
2.2.