[Pythonmac-SIG] urllib2 error

[Alastair Rankine]

Hi,

I just installed MacPython 2.4.1 and TigerPython24Fix from 
http://undefined.org/python/ onto my Tiger system. All is not well with 
the urllib2 module:

$ python
Python 2.4.1 (#2, Mar 31 2005, 00:05:10)
[GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1666)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import urllib2
 >>> urllib2.urlopen("http://www.python.org")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File 
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", 
line 130, in urlopen
    return _opener.open(url, data)
  File 
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", 
line 358, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File 
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", 
line 376, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File 
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", 
line 337, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File 
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", 
line 1021, in http_open
    return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req)
  File 
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", 
line 996, in do_open
    raise URLError(err)
urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error (7, 'No address associated with nodename')>
 >>>

This does not seem to be a problem with my network:

$ host www.python.org
www.python.org is an alias for fang.python.org.
fang.python.org has address 194.109.137.226

Nor with Apple's python 2.3:

$ /usr/bin/python
Python 2.3.5 (#1, Mar 20 2005, 20:38:20)
[GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1809)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import urllib2
 >>> urllib2.urlopen("http://www.python.org")
<addinfourl at 4741400 whose fp = <socket._fileobject object at 0x52d50>>
 >>>

Seems like something pretty fundamentally wrong is going on here. Any 
suggestions?