captcha solving error

captcha solve

# my function to solve the captcha
# here I'm passing the url of the image with captcha_image
# the url example: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/captcha/sargzmyv/Captcha_xhoxwckkdo.jpg

```
def solve_captcha(captcha_image):
    print('--- called solve_captcha for captcha: '+str(captcha_image))
    print('--- setting Death By Captcha credentials---')
    client = deathbycaptcha.SocketClient('vega6dev', 'dev@1234')

    print('--- trying decode CAPTCHA---')
    try:
        balance = client.get_balance()

        # Put your CAPTCHA file name or file-like object, and optional
        # solving timeout (in seconds) here:
        print('--- setting CAPTCHA image---')
        captcha = client.decode(captcha_image, 20)
        print('--- Death By Captcha executed... checking result---')
        if captcha:
            print('--- CAPTCHA solved---')
            print('--- CAPTCHA: '+str(captcha["captcha"]))
            print('--- CAPTCHA text: '+str(captcha["text"]))
            # The CAPTCHA was solved; captcha["captcha"] item holds its
            # numeric ID, and captcha["text"] item its text.
            print("CAPTCHA %s solved: %s" % (captcha["captcha"], captcha["text"]))
            return captcha["text"]

    except deathbycaptcha.AccessDeniedException:
        # Access to DBC API denied, check your
        print("error: Access to DBC API denied, check your credentials and/or balance")

    return None
```
    
    
# Error log contains
```
  File "/home/amzitrage/app.amzitrage.com/scraper/utils.py", line 182, in amazon_upc_to_asin
    captcha_string = solve_captcha(captcha_image)
  File "/home/amzitrage/app.amzitrage.com/scraper/utils.py", line 366, in solve_captcha
    balance = client.get_balance()
  File "/home/amzitrage/app.amzitrage.com/dbc_api_python3/deathbycaptcha.py", line 159, in get_balance
    return self.get_user().get('balance')
  File "/home/amzitrage/app.amzitrage.com/dbc_api_python3/deathbycaptcha.py", line 421, in get_user
    return self._call('user') or {'user': 0}
  File "/home/amzitrage/app.amzitrage.com/dbc_api_python3/deathbycaptcha.py", line 373, in _call
    self._call('login', self.userpwd.copy())
  File "/home/amzitrage/app.amzitrage.com/dbc_api_python3/deathbycaptcha.py", line 391, in _call
    raise IOError('Connection lost timed out during API request')
  OSError: Connection lost timed out during API request
```


NOTE: I even tried downloading the image and passing the image path but got same error.
Error is occured on first call => balance = client.get_balance()
using Python: 3.6.2