BrokenPipeError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe

Trying to create a raw transaction on the testnet gives the following error:
```Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
con.createrawtransaction([{"txid":"a8fd2dacb674cec804e1cd861c9310d999d6d149fd17d5e44034ed1207860f60","vout":0}], {"myJXY5WznWSLqSoghhieCXfykkZnCz9P1U":1.79})
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/bitcoinrpc/authproxy.py", line 136, in __call__
'Content-type': 'application/json'})
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/http/client.py", line 1106, in request
self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/http/client.py", line 1151, in _send_request
self.endheaders(body)
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/http/client.py", line 1102, in endheaders
self._send_output(message_body)
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/http/client.py", line 936, in _send_output
self.send(message_body)
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/http/client.py", line 908, in send
self.sock.sendall(data)
BrokenPipeError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe
>>>
```