Recovering from ECONNRESET in Python/Mechanize

Perhaps place the try..except block higher up in the chain of command:

import collections
def download_file(url):
    # Bundle together the bunch of browser calls necessary to download one file.
    browser.follow_link(...)
    ...
    response=browser.response()
    data=response.read()

urls=collections.deque(urls)

while urls:
    url=urls.popleft()
    try:
        download_file(url)
    except IOError as err:
        if err.args[1].args[0].errno != errno.ECONNRESET:
            raise
        else:
            # if ECONNRESET error, add the url back to urls to try again later
            urls.append(url)