yum - TypeError: iterable argument required

[Olaf Mueller]

Hello,

I get the following error message when starting yum. Is there a
solution?

Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 60, in ?
    yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "yummain.py", line 188, in main
  File "clientStuff.py", line 749, in get_package_info_from_servers
  File "clientStuff.py", line 1135, in grab
  File "urlgrabber.py", line 228, in retrygrab
  File "urlgrabber.py", line 306, in urlgrab
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/urllib2.py", line 138, in urlopen
    return _opener.open(url, data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/urllib2.py", line 328, in open
    '_open', req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/urllib2.py", line 307, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/urllib2.py", line 482, in <lambda>
    lambda r, proxy=url, type=type, meth=self.proxy_open: \
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/urllib2.py", line 489, in proxy_open
    if '@' in host:
TypeError: iterable argument required



thanks
Olaf