xml-rpc example doesn't work with python 2.6

the xml-rpc example doesn't work with python 2.6:
$ python
Python 2.6.2 (release26-maint, Apr 19 2009, 01:58:18)
[GCC 4.3.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import xmlrpclib
>>> xrl = xmlrpclib.Server('http://metamark.net/api/xmlrpc')
>>> print xrl.shorten_simple('http://www.example.com')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1199, in __call__
return self.__send(self.__name, args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1489, in __request
verbose=self.__verbose
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1253, in request
return self._parse_response(h.getfile(), sock)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1392, in _parse_response
return u.close()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 838, in close
raise Fault(**self._stack[0])
xmlrpclib.Fault: <fault>
</module></stdin>