[Zinger]

i was wondering about dummy "imports" that would just print a list instead of displaying the xmbcgui selection dialog, for example. or even wrap an existing windows python dialog.

anyway i'd more appreciate help with a script thats driving me mad. i'm scraping info from shoutcast and presenting in selection dialogs genres/stations and finally retrieving the audio stream from a pls and passing to xmbc. it's only pulling info from selections made not leaching the whole site at once. this all works but after repeated url requests, network response times slow, current playing song starts skipping. then i start to receive socket read errors and have to recycle xmbc to get network moving again. any suggestions?

url code:

req = urllib2.request(url)
req.add_header('authorization', 'basic ')
try:
progress.create("attempting to connect to:\n %s" % url)
time.sleep(2)
urlhandle = urllib2.urlopen(req)
remotedata = urlhandle.read()
urlhandle.close()
return remotedata

thanks,
brian