> ... > I'm going to upgrade Python and see if that has any effect... > ...
I upgraded Python, it had an effect, but not a positive one. My interactivity is below. Where is the "Hello World." text coming from? 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. >>> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list