minor compability changes to code base, add simple unit test for totally critical bug

test_urlbot.py

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+"""
+To be executed with nose
+"""
+import unittest
+from eventlooper import fetch_page
+
+
+class TestEventlooper(unittest.TestCase):
+
+	def test_broken_url(self):
+		"""
+		Test that broken socket calls are not breaking
+		"""
+		broken_url = 'http://foo'
+		result = fetch_page(url=broken_url)
+		self.assertEqual(result, (None, None))
+