2.3b1 PackageManager fails to initialize, Mac OS X

[David Lewis]

I've built Python 2.3b1 from the tarball. I've got WASTE installed, so
it built the PythonIDE, etc. If I select PackageManager from the
PythonIDE file menu, I get a traceback from urllib2.py, when it tries
to get
'http://homepages.cwi.nl/~jack/pimp/pimp-darwin-6.5-Power_Macintosh.plis
t'. I can see that page in a browser, so that's not the problem. I can
manually execute the following code in the PythonIDE interactive
window:

   import urllib2

   f = urllib2.urlopen(
'http://homepages.cwi.nl/~jack/pimp/pimp-darwin-6.5-Power_Macintosh.plis
t')

   for line in f:
      print line

and that all works. Any ideas?

   David