trying to connect to Amazon web services

[python newbie]

This is what I get, by the way, when I running the script as shown in orig
post. (yes I'm using my actual numbers for wishlist id and for amazon
license). I inserted the 'number not shown' below.
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http://xml.amazon.com/onca/xml?v=1.0&f=xml&t=webservices-20&dev-t=<num not
shown>
&type=heavy&page=1&WishlistSearch=<num not shown>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "E:\MyProjects1\python\Amazon\getWishList.py", line 3, in ?
    mywishlist = amazon.searchByWishlist(' number not shown');
  File "E:\MyProjects1\python\Amazon\amazon.py", line 297, in
searchByWishlist
    return search("WishlistSearch", wishlistID, None, type, page,
license_key, h
ttp_proxy)
  File "E:\MyProjects1\python\Amazon\amazon.py", line 251, in search
    raise AmazonError, data.ErrorMsg
amazon.AmazonError: We encountered an error processing your request. Please
retr
y.
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"python newbie" <noemail at nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Hey Py fans,
>  I have two basic motivations that I'm going for.
>
> One, to learn Python.
>
> Another, to download the list of 92 books I have added to my Amazon
wishlist
> up to now, so that I could write a clean csv file of these books to my
hard
> drive.
>
> I downloaded the pyAmazon web services package,  and read the code
examples,
> however ( and you probably don't even have to know about pyAmazon to be
able
> to offer a suggestion ) I'm not sure how to connect to the Internet.
>
> My script is so far, this:
> -------------------
> import amazon
> amazon.setLicense('< i put my number here  >')
> mywishlist = amazon.searchByWishlist(' < i put my number here  >');
> ------------
>
> .. I'm going to figure out how to get the book info from the 'mywishlist'
> object later, but if I run this script like this, this doesn't connect to
> the Internet or to Amazon.
>
> How would I do that, I'm wondering?
>
> Thanks
>
>