Thanks, I was trying to get it to work with urllib instead of urllib2. The code below works. Thanks.
import urllib2 as myurl url = "some url" try: myurl.urlopen(url) print "Redirecting to %s\n" % url return url except: print "An invalid login_query was specified. Redirecting to prefedit.psp with an error message.\n" return "prefedit.psp?uname=%s&err=Invalid%%20login%%20query." %(username) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list