Jeff Knupp added the comment:
Was this discovered when you were trying "to tell urlopen not to check the
hostname for https connections?" If so, that should be reflected in the title
so others know what the observable effect is. Referencing specific variables is
less useful both for searching
New submission from Daniel Wozniak:
In the urllib.request.urlopen on line 154 the code path that sets
check_hostname to False will never run. I'm not sure what the desired behavior
is. If we want to have a way to tell urlopen not to check the hostname for
https connections it looks as though t
