gnome: Use requests instead of urllib2

This should give us connection pooling, which can be important for
further planned changes.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/modules/gnome_module.py b/modules/gnome_module.py
index 0edf973..7c8f613 100644
--- a/modules/gnome_module.py
+++ b/modules/gnome_module.py
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 # LICENSE - GPL2
 # vim: set sts=4 sw=4 et tw=0 :
 
-import urllib2, package_module, clioptions_module
+import requests
+import package_module, clioptions_module
 
 DEBUG = False
 
@@ -23,17 +24,17 @@ class GNOME:
             gnome_release_list[1] = str(int(gnome_release_list[1]) + 1)
         self.gnome_release = ".".join(gnome_release_list[:2])
 
-        self.ftpserver = "download.gnome.org"
-        self.release_versions_file_path = 'https://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/'
+        self.http = requests.session()
+        self.url_base = "https://download.gnome.org/"
+        self.release_versions_file_path = self.url_base + 'teams/releng/'
 
     def generate_data_from_versions_markup(self, url):
-        try:
-            f = urllib2.urlopen(url)
-        except:
+        data = self.http.get(url)
+        if not data:
             raise ValueError("Couldn't open %s" % url)
 
         ret = []
-        for line in f.readlines():
+        for line in data.iter_lines():
             components = str.strip(line).split(':')
             # Skip invalid lines
             if len(components) != 4 or len(components[2]) == 0:
@@ -46,7 +47,6 @@ class GNOME:
                 ret.append(pkg)
             else:
                 print "Warning: Ignoring package %s because parsing of its name or version string '%s' failed" % (components[1], components[2])
-        f.close()
         return ret
 
     def generate_data_individual(self):