On 29/05/2006 10:47 PM, Serge Orlov wrote: > Rocco wrote: >> Also with ascii the function does not work. > > Well, at least you fixed misconfiguration ;) > > Googling for 1F8B (that's two first bytes from your strange python 2.4 > result) gives a hint: it's a beginning of gzip stream.
Well done! > Maybe urllib2 in > python 2.4 reports to the server that it supports compressed data but > doesn't decompress it when receives the reply? > Something funny is happening here. Others reported it working with 2.4.3 and Rocco's original code as posted in this thread -- which works for me on 2.4.2, Windows XP. There was one suss thing about Rocco's problem description: First message ended with d=takefeed(url) But next message said print rss Is rss == d? Cheers, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
