urllib2.URLError:

Question

If I run:

urllib2.urlopen(\'http://google.com\')

even if I use another url, I get the same error.

I\'m pretty sure there is no fire

Answer 1

The problem, in my case, was that some install at some point defined an environment variable http_proxy on my machine when I had no proxy.

Removing the http_proxy environment variable fixed the problem.