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The pythonw.exe may not have the rights to access network resources.
>> Have you set a default timeout for sockets?
>>
>> import socket
>> socket.setdefaulttimeout(10) # 10 seconds
I have added pythonw.exe to allowed exceptions. Disabled firewall 
completely. Set socket timeout to 10 seconds. Still nothing.

urllib.urlretrieve does not return from call....

any other ideas?