[Pythonmac-SIG] urlopen() question

[tom smith]

Jack kindly wrote me a bit of code to REALLY get a urls' data for me...along
the lines of...

def read_url(url, the_file=None):

        u = urllib.urlopen(str(url))
        rv = ''
        newdata = u.read()
    
        while newdata:
            rv = rv + newdata
            try:
                newdata = u.read()
            except:
                raise
        u.close()
        return rv

...the only problem is is that I keep getting "socket not connected errors"
which I can't catch. I need my program to keep running, so if a socket
doesn't connect, I'll try again later

any ideas?

thanks

tom