2.3b1 PackageManager fails to initialize, Mac OS X

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In article <300420031655007042%DavidMLewis.NO at SPAM.mac.com>,
 David Lewis <DavidMLewis.NO at SPAM.mac.com> wrote:

> 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?

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