A problem while using urllib

[Steve Holden]

John J. Lee wrote:
> Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> writes:
> [...]
> 
>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 996, in do_open
>>     raise URLError(err)
>>urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error (120, 'Operation already in progress')>
>>
>>Looking at that part of the course of urrllib2 we see:
>>
>>         headers["Connection"] = "close"
>>         try:
>>             h.request(req.get_method(), req.get_selector(), req.data, 
>>headers)
>>             r = h.getresponse()
>>         except socket.error, err: # XXX what error?
>>             raise URLError(err)
>>
>>So my conclusion is that there's something in the Cygwin socket module 
>>that causes problems not seen under other platforms.
>>
>>I couldn't find any obviously-related error in the Python bug tracker, 
>>and I have copied this message to the Cygwin list in case someone there 
>>knows what the problem is.
> 
> [...]
> 
> I don't *think* this is related, but just in case:
> 
> http://python.org/sf/1208304
> 
Good catch, John, I suspect this is a possibility so I've added the 
following note:

"""The Windows 2.4.1 build doesn't show this error, but the Cygwin 2.4.1 
build does still have uncollectable objects after a urllib2.urlopen(), 
so there may be a platform dependency here. No 2.4.2 on Cygwin yet, so 
nothing conclusive as lsof isn't available."""

regards
  Steve
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