R. David Murray added the comment:
This is a duplicate of issue 6471, which we really do need to fix. But there
are backward compatibility concerns with fixing it in 2.7, I'm afraid.
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nosy: +r.david.murray
resolution: -> duplicate
stage: -> committed/rejected
status: open -> closed
New submission from Denis:
On 'connection refused' error urllib creates IOError with wrong arguents:
args ('socket error', error(, 'Connection refused'))
It results to dirty hacks in Python code like
'if e.errno == "socket error": ...'
instead of traditional
'id e.errno == errno.ECONNREFUS
