I get strange callstack from urllib2

It seems that python thinks that HTTPSConnection doesn't have context argument.
Which is entirely incorrect. 
I have suspicions that this is related to the way how context argument is passed(kwargs)
This happens starting from python 2.7.9

More likely http_class isn't what you think it is (ie: it might be an HTTPSConnection subclass that hasn't been updated to deal with 2.7.9.  Can you check that?

Yes, i checked what is http_class. It is passed as httplib.HTTPSConnection
Before submitting this issue i checked httplib.py in my installation of py2 and there https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/2.7/Lib/httplib.py

HTTPSConnection has argument "context".

Btw, it would be nice to update comments in urllib2 so that it would be more accurate

Btw, i also tried to replace **kwargs with usual argument and it didn't throw exception

Also according to documentation this class was specifically updated with context in 2.7.9
I guess then there should commit related to adding of "context" to HTTPSConnection

It seems to be this one
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/1882157b298a

I made additional experiments and now i'm confused
When i tried to execute urlopen in python interpeter it worked fine.
But it fails for me when i attempt to do so via some helper function in search engine of qBittorent it throw exception

https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/blob/master/src/searchengine/nova/helpers.py

What is curious... all exceptions should be passed without notices, but for some reason python does throw exception even though all are catched and passed

Just to up issue.
It seems that there is some changes in 2.7.9 that breaks usage of urllib2.urlopen()

No problem in python implementation of HTTPSConnection
Sorry

Hello,
The resolution of this bug is "not a bug". If that is the case can you please add information how to fix/workaround this.
I have got the following valid-seeming code:
"""
import cookielib
import urllib
import urllib2
cookie = cookielib.CookieJar()
opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(cookie))
opener.open('https://www.google.com', timeout=2)
"""

Which results in:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "httplib_context_bug.py", line 6, in <module>
    opener.open('https://www.google.com', timeout=2)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 431, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 449, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 409, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1240, in https_open
    context=self._context)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1166, in do_open
    h = http_class(host, timeout=req.timeout, **http_conn_args)
TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'context'

$ python 
Python 2.7.9 (default, Mar  1 2015, 12:57:24)
$ cat /etc/issue
Debian GNU/Linux 8 \n \l

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Christian: it looks like, unlike the original report, this one involves only stdlib code.  So maybe there really is a bug here.

Nice that you investigate again into this issue. Could you please test if this still happens on python 2.7.10 as I unfortunately have no environment with that version. This would be very kind of you!