python - urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 11004] getaddrinfo failed>

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 firewall running on my computer or router, and the internet (from a browser) works fine.

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.