Derived from SocksiPy - a Python SOCKS module. - UDP support - SocksiPyHandler, courtesy e000, was also added as an example of how this module can be used with urllib2. See example code in sockshandler.py. - urllib3, which powers the requests module, is working on integrating SOCKS proxy support based on this branch WWW: https://github.com/Anorov/PySocks