Re: [Python-Dev] urllib.request.urlopen struggling in Windows 7

2011-11-14 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> I do believe this is a windows issue, but can python be made more robust to > deal > with what is causing it? I can't believe that it's a Windows issue, and neither can I believe that it's a Python issue (although this is more likely). Most likely, it's a server issue, i.e. the server somehow

[Python-Dev] urllib.request.urlopen struggling in Windows 7

2011-11-14 Thread Thom Ives
Previously, in python 2.6, I had made a lot of use of urllib.urlopen to capture web page content and then post process the data from the site I was downloading. Now, those routines, and the new routines I am trying to use for python 3.2 are running into what seems to be a windows only (maybe even w