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I have not idea what the url has to do with it either, but I
was hoping it would be a simple example of "this code [that]
broke when [he] upgraded python from 2.2.1 to 2.2.2".  It
doesn't appear to be, or at least it doesn't appear to be a
simple boiled down example, and I'm too tired right now to
slog through all this code.

Kevin, can you please upload a simple, reproducible script
illustrating the breakage?  I'll look at it tomorrow, unless
Insomniac Timbot beats me to it.