librabbitmq misleading connection error message

gistfile1.txt

In [1]: import librabbitmq

In [2]: connection = librabbitmq.Connection(userid='bad', password='bad')
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ConnectionError                           Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-2-23c4e6e59779> in <module>()
----> 1 connection = librabbitmq.Connection(userid='bad', password='bad')

/Users/dgouldin/virtualenv/djangocon2012/lib/python2.7/site-packages/librabbitmq/__init__.pyc in __init__(self, host, userid, password, virtual_host, port, channel_max, frame_max, heartbeat, lazy, **kwargs)
    166         self._avail_channel_ids = array('H', xrange(self.channel_max, 0, -1))
    167         if not lazy:
--> 168             self.connect()
    169 
    170     def reconnect(self):

ConnectionError: Couldn't log in: Argument list too long

In [3]: connection = librabbitmq.Connection()