Google AppEngine SDK has been updated to 1.1.9 and a feature bug has been closed out by Guido that now has support for urllib and urllib2 libraries which nearly every library made with python uses as some point.  This is great that they are working to support (safely with scalability) the common libraries that Pythonistas expect.

I really hope Google AppEngine can go 1.0 soon.  After the official launch of Amazon EC2 and other services out of beta, mosso, joyent etc it is getting hard to convince people to build on it until it goes out of beta.

Hoping for two things, 1.0 of Google AppEngine and support of Django 1.0 on that release officially. It is possible to run Django 1.0.x on the engine but it is painful using all that disk space (django has lots of files and google has a 1,000 file limit).

http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=61

Tags: appengine, gae, google, python, urllib, urllib2

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