urllib2 through basic auth'ed proxy

[Alejandro Dubrovsky]

John J. Lee wrote:

> FWIW, at a glance, Python 2.3.4 has neither of the bugs I mentioned,
> but the code I posted seems to work with 2.3.4.  I'm not particularly
> interested in what's wrong with 2.3.4's version or your usage of it
> (probably both), since bugfix releases for 2.3 are no longer
> happening, I believe.
> 

"ah, yes, that works" on 2.3.4.  Excellent.  (I don't see what's so ugly
about that code, but i'm mostly accustomed to my own)
Thanks,
alejandro