AttributeError: 'URLError' object has no attribute 'code'

I am working on a little script which transcribes WAV files located in a local directory using a local host running SpeechRecognition (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/SpeechRecognition/ ). However, for some reason I'm getting an odd error of AttributeError: 'URLError' object has no attribute 'code'.

Here is a trimmed down traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 1182, in do_open
    h.request(req.get_method(), req.selector, req.data, headers)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\http\client.py", line 1088, in request
    self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\socket.py", line 494, in create_connection
    for res in getaddrinfo(host, port, 0, SOCK_STREAM):
  File "C:\Python34\lib\socket.py", line 533, in getaddrinfo
    for res in _socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, family, type, proto, flags):
socket.gaierror: [Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 1210, in http_open
    return self.do_open(http.client.HTTPConnection, req)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 1184, in do_open
    raise URLError(err)
urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed>

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Users/William/Documents/FlashBulb/userMedia/server.py", line 86, in do_POST
    recognize(output_file)
  File "C:/Users/William/Documents/FlashBulb/userMedia/server.py", line 29, in recognize
    print("Google Speech Recognition thinks you said " + r.recognize_google(audio))
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\speech_recognition\__init__.py", line 408, in recognize_google
    raise RequestError("recognition connection failed: {0}".format(getattr(e, "reason", "status {0}".format(e.code)))) # use getattr to be compatible with Python 2.6
AttributeError: 'URLError' object has no attribute 'code'
----------------------------------------
Exception happened during processing of request from ('127.0.0.1', 62409)


And here is the script:

#!/usr/bin/python

import time
from http.server import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer
import os
import cgi
import speech_recognition as sr

HOST_NAME = 'localhost'
PORT_NUMBER = 10000
ASSETS_DIR = 'assets'

if not os.path.exists(ASSETS_DIR):
    os.mkdir(ASSETS_DIR)


def recognize(wav_file):
    print("Recognizing ", wav_file)
    r = sr.Recognizer()
    r.energy_threshold = 350
    r.pause_threshold = 10.0
    with sr.WavFile(wav_file) as source:
        audio = r.record(source)

    try:
        # for testing purposes, we're just using the default API key
        # to use another API key, use `r.recognize_google(audio, key="GOOGLE_SPEECH_RECOGNITION_API_KEY")`
        # instead of `r.recognize_google(audio)`
        print("Google Speech Recognition thinks you said " + r.recognize_google(audio))
        os.remove(wav_file)

    except sr.UnknownValueError as e:
        print(e)
        print("Google Speech Recognition could not understand audio")
        os.remove(wav_file)
    except sr.RequestError as e:
        print("Could not request results from Google Speech Recognition service; {0}".format(e))


class MyHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
    previous_wav = ""

    def do_GET(self):

        if self.path == "/":
            self.path = "/index.html"

        try:
            sendReply = False
            if self.path.endswith(".html"):
                mimetype = 'text/html'
                sendReply = True
            if self.path.endswith(".js"):
                mimetype = 'application/javascript'
                sendReply = True

            if sendReply:
                # Open the static file requested and send it
                f = open(os.path.join(os.curdir + os.sep + self.path))
                self.send_response(200)
                self.send_header('Content-type', mimetype)
                self.end_headers()
                self.wfile.write(bytes(f.read(), 'utf-8'))
                f.close()
                return

        except IOError:
            self.send_error(404, 'File Not Found: %s' % self.path)

    def do_POST(self):

        if self.path == '/upload':
            form = cgi.FieldStorage(
                fp=self.rfile,
                headers=self.headers,
                environ={
                    'REQUEST_METHOD':'POST',
                    'CONTENT_TYPE':self.headers['Content-Type'],
                })

            filename = form.getvalue("fname").strip()
            data = form['data'].file.read()
            output_file = os.path.join(os.curdir, ASSETS_DIR, filename)
            open(output_file, "wb").write(data)
            if str(output_file) != MyHandler.previous_wav:
                recognize(output_file)
            MyHandler.previous_wav = str(output_file)
            self.send_response(200)


if __name__ == '__main__':

    server_class = HTTPServer
    httpd = server_class((HOST_NAME, PORT_NUMBER), MyHandler)
    print(time.asctime(), "Server Starts - %s:%s" % (HOST_NAME, PORT_NUMBER))
    try:
        httpd.serve_forever()
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        pass
    httpd.server_close()
    print(time.asctime(), "Server Stops - %s:%s" % (HOST_NAME, PORT_NUMBER))

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I would of ran a set trace  but I'm not sure how to do that since it would interrupt the post process. I haven't seen an issue like this before so I'm not sure exactly what is happening. Any help would be awesome!