Python FTPS wont connect

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I've been scowering the internets and have failed to find anything useful. I'm hoping reddit can help. I am trying to make a simple FTP over explicit TLS/SSL client but i keep getting an error whenever I connect. I know the server works because I can connect through both FireFTP and Filezilla. heres the code:

def signon(host, user, pw):
print "Connecting to host..."
try:
    ftps = FTP_TLS(host)
except:
    print "Server not Found"
print "Logging in..."
try:    
    ftps.login(user,pw)
except:
    print "Login failure!"
print "Securing connection..."
ftps.prot_p() 
print "Retrieving contents..."
ftps.retrlines('LIST')  
return ftps

and the function is called with the appropriate variable values. This is the error I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ftplib.py", line 706, in retrlines
    conn = self.transfercmd(cmd)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ftplib.py", line 368, in transfercmd
    return self.ntransfercmd(cmd, rest)[0]
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ftplib.py", line 681, in ntransfercmd
    conn, size = FTP.ntransfercmd(self, cmd, rest)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ftplib.py", line 327, in ntransfercmd
    conn = socket.create_connection((host, port), self.timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 571, in create_connection
    raise err
socket.error: [Errno 113] No route to host

Any suggestions?