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I'm debugging a simple program, that has worked in the past. I've singled out the instruction where the error takes place, but I cannot figure out what triggers it. I've read all questions related to WinError 10061, but I do not see a clear answer

urllib.request.urlopen('http://www.wikipedia.org/')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python33\lib\urllib\request.py", line 1248, in do_open    h.request(req.get_method(), req.selector, req.data, headers)
File "C:\Python33\lib\http\client.py", line 1061, in request    self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
File "C:\Python33\lib\http\client.py", line 1099, in _send_request    self.endheaders(body)
File "C:\Python33\lib\http\client.py", line 1057, in endheaders  self._send_output(message_body)
File "C:\Python33\lib\http\client.py", line 902, in _send_output    self.send(msg)
File "C:\Python33\lib\http\client.py", line 840, in send    self.connect()
File "C:\Python33\lib\http\client.py", line 818, in connect    self.timeout, self.source_address)
File "C:\Python33\lib\socket.py", line 435, in create_connection    raise err
File "C:\Python33\lib\socket.py", line 426, in create_connection    sock.connect(sa)
ConnectionRefusedError: [WinError 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: 
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#7>", line 1, in <module>
urllib.request.urlopen('http://www.wikipedia.org/')
File "C:\Python33\lib\urllib\request.py", line 156, in urlopen   return opener.open(url, data, timeout)
File "C:\Python33\lib\urllib\request.py", line 469, in open    response = self._open(req, data)
File "C:\Python33\lib\urllib\request.py", line 487, in _open    '_open', req)
File "C:\Python33\lib\urllib\request.py", line 447, in _call_chain    result = func(*args)
File "C:\Python33\lib\urllib\request.py", line 1268, in http_open    return self.do_open(http.client.HTTPConnection, req)
File "C:\Python33\lib\urllib\request.py", line 1251, in do_open    raise URLError(err)
urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error [WinError 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it>
I run Python 3 in Windows 8. I tried turning off the firewall, as a couple of people suggested, but nothing changes. I also tried to add Python to the list of Apps allowed by the firewall. By the way the program line worked without any problem until a few days ago, when I deleted a few Apps from my PC.
                Thanks for this detailed suggestion.  Unfortunately (four years after you posted this solution) I set mine to "automatically detect settings" and it did not solve it.
– birrellwalsh
                Oct 19, 2018 at 1:15
        
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