Can not get urllib.urlopen to work

[Peter Hansen]

Pater Maximus wrote:
> Problem solved!!
> 
> First, thanks to all who responded.
> 
> It turns out the villain was "Norton Personal Firewall". Since it did not
> warn me that it was blocking an attempt to reach the internet, I assumed it
> was not the problem.
> 
> Bad assumption.
> 
> Everything worked when I configured Norton to allow pythonw.exe to contact
> the internet.

While that might have been *another* of your problems,
there definitely was a problem connecting to that host
at the time you posted.

The most difficult problems to troubleshoot are those that
involve more than one cause.  I can see how this one would
have been a real bitch to find. :-)

-Peter