[google-appengine] In AppEngine, gdata.py-1.2.1 (latest as of 10-8-08) is broken and gdata.service.http_request_handler = gdata.urlfetch won't help

Jeff Scudder blogged about making Contacts API work with AppEngine here ( http://googledataapis.blogspot.com/2008/04/release-hounds-support-for-app-engine.html ), but gdata.py-1.2.1 is broken in AppEngine 1.1.5 (both are latest as of 10-08-08). The error is 'module' object has no attribute 'sock

[google-appengine] 'module' object has no attribute 'getaddrinfo'

I know that is another post with the same subject, but that one was still not helping me. So can I start a new thread of discussion. In my handler, I have the following couple of lines: client = gdata.contacts.service.ContactsService() feeds = client.GetContactsFeed() and the following imports