diff --git a/python-base.changes b/python-base.changes
index 3fc9569..d2af42f 100644
--- a/python-base.changes
+++ b/python-base.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Aug 26 15:13:49 UTC 2010 - suse-tux@gmx.de
+
+- fix for urllib2 (http://bugs.python.org/issue9639) 
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Aug 26 13:45:19 UTC 2010 - jmatejek@novell.com
 
diff --git a/python-base.spec b/python-base.spec
index ffa6509..801d724 100644
--- a/python-base.spec
+++ b/python-base.spec
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ Patch6:         python-2.6-gettext-plurals.patch
 Patch7:         python-2.6.5-distutils_test_path.patch
 Patch8:         sparc_longdouble.patch
 Patch9:         python-2.7-acrequire.patch
+Patch10:        urllib2-AbstractBasicAuthHandler_reset_attr.diff
 
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 %define         python_version    %(echo %{version} | head -c 3)
@@ -137,6 +138,7 @@ Authors:
 %patch7 -p1
 %patch8 -p1
 %patch9 -p1
+%patch10
 
 # some cleanup
 find . -name .cvsignore -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f
diff --git a/urllib2-AbstractBasicAuthHandler_reset_attr.diff b/urllib2-AbstractBasicAuthHandler_reset_attr.diff
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..46886aa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/urllib2-AbstractBasicAuthHandler_reset_attr.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+Index: Lib/urllib2.py
+===================================================================
+--- Lib/urllib2.py	(Revision 84196)
++++ Lib/urllib2.py	(Arbeitskopie)
+@@ -821,6 +821,9 @@
+         self.add_password = self.passwd.add_password
+         self.retried = 0
+ 
++    def reset_retry_count(self):
++        self.retried = 0
++
+     def http_error_auth_reqed(self, authreq, host, req, headers):
+         # host may be an authority (without userinfo) or a URL with an
+         # authority
+@@ -860,8 +863,10 @@
+ 
+     def http_error_401(self, req, fp, code, msg, headers):
+         url = req.get_full_url()
+-        return self.http_error_auth_reqed('www-authenticate',
+-                                          url, req, headers)
++        response = self.http_error_auth_reqed('www-authenticate',
++                                              url, req, headers)
++        self.reset_retry_count()
++        return response
+ 
+ 
+ class ProxyBasicAuthHandler(AbstractBasicAuthHandler, BaseHandler):