# it turned out, however, that after around 10 cycles of the nodemanager,
# attempts to call GetSlivers were failing with a curl error 60
# we are thus reverting to the version from tag curlwrapper.py-NodeManager-2.0-8
-# the (broekn) pycurl version can be found in tags 2.0-9 and 2.0-10
+# the (broken) pycurl version can be found in tags 2.0-9 and 2.0-10
from subprocess import PIPE, Popen
from select import select