urlopen() error

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Hello. I am getting an error and it has gotten me stuck. I think the
best thing I can do is post my code and the error message and thank
everybody in advanced for any help that you give this issue. Thank you.

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Here's the code:
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import urllib2
import re
import xlrd
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup

book = xlrd.open_workbook("ige_virtualMoney.xls")
sh = book.sheet_by_index(0)
rx = 1
for rx in range(sh.nrows):
    u = sh.cell_value(rx, 0)
    page = urllib2.urlopen(u)
    soup = BeautifulSoup(page)
    p = soup.findAll('span', "sale")
    p = str(p)
    p2 = re.findall('\$\d+\.\d\d', p)
    for price in p2:
		print price

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Here are the error messages:
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "E:\Python24\scraper.py", line 16, in -toplevel-
    page = urllib2.urlopen(u)
  File "E:\Python24\lib\urllib2.py", line 130, in urlopen
    return _opener.open(url, data)
  File "E:\Python24\lib\urllib2.py", line 350, in open
    protocol = req.get_type()
  File "E:\Python24\lib\urllib2.py", line 233, in get_type
    raise ValueError, "unknown url type: %s" % self.__original
ValueError: unknown url type: List