HTTP GET Explodes...

[Pete]

John Machin wrote:
> Pete wrote:
> > Fade in to episode II...
> >
> > > ...
> > > This is compiling a *constant* regular expression, and works OK on the
> > > Windows distribution of Python 2.4.3 :
> >
> > Hmmmm. Here's the version information stuff:
> >
> > Python 2.4.2 (#1, Feb 12 2006, 03:59:46)
> > [GCC 4.1.0 20060210 (Red Hat 4.1.0-0.24)] on linux2
> >
> > I'm going to upgrade Python and see if that has any effect...
> > I'm running this on a Fedora Core 5 box...
> >
> > > ...
> > > You appear to be running 2.4.n; what is n, and exactly which *x
> > > platform are you running it on? Perhaps a file in /usr/lib/python2.4 is
> > > corrupt, but we won't know until you give the *full* traceback. Do you
> > > get the same results when you try what I did at the interpreter
> > > interactive prompt?
> >
> > The error I received was from the interactive prompt thing.
>
> So I noticed from your first posting. Now do what you were asked: try
> what I did.
>
> > Is there
> > some way I can get more verbose information or something that would be
> > more helpful?
> >
>
> Yes, just include the whole traceback!!! Example of what I mean is
> below:

Here's my full interactive I/O:

Python 2.4.3 (#1, Jun 13 2006, 11:46:08)
[GCC 4.1.1 20060525 (Red Hat 4.1.1-1)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import httplib
>>> conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("www.python.org")
>>> conn.request("GET", "/index.html")
Hello World.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/httplib.py", line 804, in request
    self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/httplib.py", line 821, in _send_request
    self.putrequest(method, url, **skips)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/httplib.py", line 752, in putrequest
    self.putheader('Host', self.host.encode("idna"))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/encodings/__init__.py", line 96, in
search_function
    globals(), locals(), _import_tail)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/encodings/idna.py", line 6, in ?
    dots = re.compile(u"[\u002E\u3002\uFF0E\uFF61]")
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/sre.py", line 180, in compile
    return _compile(pattern, flags)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/sre.py", line 225, in _compile
    p = sre_compile.compile(pattern, flags)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/sre_compile.py", line 500, in compile
    code = _code(p, flags)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/sre_compile.py", line 481, in _code
    _compile_info(code, p, flags)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/sre_compile.py", line 459, in _compile_info
    _compile_charset(charset, flags, code)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/sre_compile.py", line 178, in
_compile_charset
    for op, av in _optimize_charset(charset, fixup):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/sre_compile.py", line 221, in
_optimize_charset
    return _optimize_unicode(charset, fixup)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/sre_compile.py", line 341, in
_optimize_unicode
    mapping = array.array('b', mapping).tostring()
TypeError: typecode argument must be a valid type.
>>>

>
> | C:\junk>copy con wally.py
> | guff = 1 / 0
> | ^Z
> |         1 file(s) copied.
> |
> | C:\junk>python
> | Python 2.4.3 (#69, Mar 29 2006, 17:35:34) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)]
> on win32
> | Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more
> information.
> | >>> import wally
> | Traceback (most recent call last):
> |   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>
> Your posting appeared truncated when viewed with both Google groups and
> in a regular newsreader.

I clipped out stuff that didn't seem relevant. I didn't clip anything
out this time.

> There is no guarantee that the last line shown is the one that caused
> the error.
> Just as if this example were missing the following lines, we don't know
> which
> source line caused the error, nor even what the error was!!
>
> |   File "wally.py", line 1, in ?
> |     guff = 1 / 0
> | ZeroDivisionError: integer division or modulo by zero
>
> HTH,
> John

I'm still lost... Were you able to successfully run the GET example at
http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/httplib-examples.html ?

Thanks for your help!
Pete