See :
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/f1ba0de2c739127c/f694e00b1253da1e
For urllib you can pass in the 'proxies={}' keyword to the urlopen
function. This disables proxy use.
Unfortunately it *doesn't* work for urllib2 which is where I need it.
Regards,
Fuzzy
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