doc/mpl_examples/api/date_demo.py doesn't run

[pelson]

Has anyone else seen this? I thought I had seen a solution to to this somewhere, but can't find it. I seem to remember @jkseppan was involved in the conversation too. Sorry it is all a bit vague.

$> python2.7 doc/mpl_examples/api/date_demo.py 

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "doc/mpl_examples/api/date_demo.py", line 28, in <module>
    datafile = cbook.get_sample_data('goog.npy')
  File "lib/matplotlib/cbook.py", line 740, in get_sample_data
    return myserver.get_sample_data(fname, asfileobj=asfileobj)
  File "lib/matplotlib/cbook.py", line 669, in get_sample_data
    response = self.opener.open(url)
  File "lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 394, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 412, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 372, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1207, in https_open
    return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPSConnection, req)
  File "lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1168, in do_open
    h.request(req.get_method(), req.get_selector(), req.data, headers)
  File "lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 259, in get_selector
    return self.__r_host
  File "lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 218, in __getattr__
    return getattr(self, attr)
  File "lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 218, in __getattr__
    return getattr(self, attr)
  File "lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 214, in __getattr__
    if attr[:12] == '_Request__r_':
RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded in cmp

[jkseppan]

Sounds like http://bugs.python.org/issue8797.

I wonder if we shouldn't just start delivering sample data as part of the package - it's not the first time that something's gone wrong with the downloading.

[jkseppan]

I think this should be fixed as of 6c5e961