--- Lib/robotparser.py.orig	2012-09-02 11:14:27.000000000 -0700
+++ Lib/robotparser.py	2012-09-02 11:08:50.000000000 -0700
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
         self.allow_all = False
         self.set_url(url)
         self.last_checked = 0
+        self.opener = URLopener()
 
     def mtime(self):
         """Returns the time the robots.txt file was last fetched.
@@ -53,11 +54,10 @@
 
     def read(self):
         """Reads the robots.txt URL and feeds it to the parser."""
-        opener = URLopener()
-        f = opener.open(self.url)
+        f = self.opener.open(self.url)
         lines = [line.strip() for line in f]
         f.close()
-        self.errcode = opener.errcode
+        self.errcode = self.opener.errcode
         if self.errcode in (401, 403):
             self.disallow_all = True
         elif self.errcode >= 400: