I can't reproduce this, no.  I only have access to a windows machine 
and you appear to have a custom build (no zlib).  I need your help to 
get the error message, so you need to try harder.  (there are probably 
at least two problems, one causing an exeption and one causing the 
error output to fail)

Try adding something like this into the file, after the except 
socket.timeout clause:
    except:
        import traceback
        traceback.print_exc(100, open(r"c:/tmp/err.txt", "a", 0))
        raise