Raise useful exception when called with URL for which request type
cannot be determined.
Pseudo-fix for SF bug #420724
diff --git a/Lib/urllib2.py b/Lib/urllib2.py
index 042f2ba..992c83b 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib2.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib2.py
@@ -217,7 +217,8 @@
def get_type(self):
if self.type is None:
self.type, self.__r_type = splittype(self.__original)
- assert self.type is not None, self.__original
+ if self.type is None:
+ raise ValueError, "unknown url type: %s" % self.__original
return self.type
def get_host(self):