Launchpad plugin broken

[Martin (gzlist)]

I've had various problems with launchpad today, at least one of them
is bazaar's fault. Python 2.4 is broken by Revision 4782, specifically
this commit:

<http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~bzr-pqm/bzr/bzr.dev/revision/4782/bzrlib/plugins/launchpad/lp_registration.py>

The new XMLRPCTransport class has:

    xmlrpclib.Transport.__init__(self, use_datetime=use_datetime)

However, xmlrpclib.Transport is a classic class, and the change that
added the __init__ method only landed for 2.5:

<http://svn.python.org/view/python/branches/release25-maint/Lib/xmlrpclib.py?r1=38462&r2=38877>

I've also been having trouble with non-logged in access to launchpad.
Earlier in the day it was hanging for minutes before I could even get
pdb up (as I was trying to do work then I didn't investigate beyond
seeing it was in _urllib2_wrappers). Just now it was telling me that
lp:~jameinel/bzr/2.1.0b3-win32-shell-completion wasn't a branch, and
now it's done "Unable to handle http code 502: Bad Gateway".

Martin