Re: urllib fails to connect

2008-08-20 Thread jlist
Thanks. My problem was not how to use a proxy server but how to not use the IE proxy :) BTW, I'm not a fan of the way urllib2 uses a proxy particularly. I think it's really unneccesarily complicated. I think it should be something like this: def urlopen(url, proxy='') And if you want to use a pro

Re: urllib fails to connect

2008-08-20 Thread jlist
My guess is urllib.urlopen() wraps the wininet calls, which share IE proxy settings. > Perhaps IE's proxy settings are effectively setting the Windows system > networking proxy settings? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: urllib fails to connect

2008-08-20 Thread jlist
I found out why. I set a proxy in IE and I didn't know ActiveState Python use IE proxy! > I'm running ActiveState Python 2.5 on Windows XP. It used > to work fine. Today however I get (10061, 'Connection refused') > for any site I try with urllib.urlopen(). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/list

urllib fails to connect

2008-08-20 Thread jlist
I'm running ActiveState Python 2.5 on Windows XP. It used to work fine. Today however I get (10061, 'Connection refused') for any site I try with urllib.urlopen(). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: benchmark

2008-08-07 Thread jlist
I think what makes more sense is to compare the code one most typically writes. In my case, I always use range() and never use psyco. But I guess for most of my work with Python performance hasn't been a issue. I haven't got to write any large systems with Python yet, where performance starts to ma