From 78cae61ad47f70208468a77d665b009601fac2be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeremy Hylton <jeremy@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 15:49:24 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Raise useful exception when called with URL for which request
 type cannot be determined.

Pseudo-fix for SF bug #420724
---
 Lib/urllib2.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/urllib2.py b/Lib/urllib2.py
index 042f2ba6f2c..992c83b5a1d 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib2.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib2.py
@@ -217,7 +217,8 @@ def get_full_url(self):
     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):