On 24/01/13 00:58:04, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 7:07 AM, Nick Cash > <nick.c...@npcinternational.com> wrote: >> Python 2.7.3 on linux >> >> This has me fairly stumped. It looks like >> urllib2.urlopen("ftp://some.ftp.site/path").read() >> will either immediately return '' or hang indefinitely. But >> response = urllib2.urlopen("ftp://some.ftp.site/path") >> response.read() >> works fine and returns what is expected. This is only an issue with urllib2, >> vanilla urllib doesn't do it. >> >> The site I first noticed it on is private, but I can reproduce it with >> "ftp://ftp2.census.gov/". > > Confirmed on 2.6.5 on Windows, fwiw. This is extremely weird.
It works fine with 2.7.3 on my Mac. > Possibly it's some kind of race condition?? If urllib2 is using active mode FTP, then a firewall on your box could explain what you're seeing. But then, that's why active mode is hardly used these days. Hope this helps, -- HansM -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list