https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66687
--- Comment #4 from msh210 msh210@gmail.com --- (In reply to John Mark Vandenberg from comment #2)
It would be good if you could add a line
print rev
at line 139 to pywikibot/version.py , so it looks like this
print rev conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection('github.com')
and report what it prints out.
If that was addressed to me and was assuming my state of affairs as it was I reported the bug (no change in software) -- neither of which I know to be the case -- then it prints out nothing.