Trying to port my socketio client from js to python but it is not working

I have the following JS code that works great to connect to a socket via the socketio client library:

userApi = 'userapiaccesfskdglk';
userAccess = 'useaccesfjkasdfdlkf2';

var axios = require('axios');
var socket = require('socket.io-client')('wss://test-meownow12345.com:4566');

socket.emit('Authenticate', {api: userApi, access: userAccess});

socket.on('Party', function(party) {
    console.log('party', party)

})

These are not the actual userApi, userAccess, or urls used, but using them still gets the same point across.

This is what i have in python, that to me looks like an exact port but is not working:

from socketIO_client import SocketIO, LoggingNamespace
import logging
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)


def on_party():
    print('connect')

userApi = 'userapiaccesfskdglk'
userAccess = 'useaccesfjkasdfdlkf2'

with SocketIO('wss://test-meownow12345.com', 4566, LoggingNamespace) as socketIO:
    socketIO.emit('Authenticate', {'api': userApi, 'access': userAccess})
    socketIO.on('Party', on_party)

It seems like it is equivalent but it is clearly not as the code cannot get past the following line that opens the socket.io connection:

with SocketIO('wss://test-meownow12345.com', 4566, LoggingNamespace) as socketIO:

In my console it prints out the following log errors that just repeat:

DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:Starting new HTTP connection (1): wss
WARNING:socketIO-client:wss:4566//test-meownow12345.com/socket.io [engine.io waiting for connection] HTTPConnectionPool(host='wss', port=4566): Max retries exceeded with url: //test-meownow12345.com/socket.io/?EIO=3&transport=polling&t=1523668232386-0 (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x105000278>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 8] nodename nor servname provided, or not known',))

I'm not really sure what this means.

I have tried changing the line giving this message and drop the 'wss://' part to make it:

with SocketIO('test-meownow12345.com', 4566, LoggingNamespace) as socketIO:

but this still fails, albeit with a new message in the logs that repeats:

DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:Starting new HTTP connection (1): test-meownow12345.com
WARNING:socketIO-client:test-meownow12345.com:4566/socket.io [engine.io waiting for connection] ('Connection aborted.', RemoteDisconnected('Remote end closed connection without response',))
DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:Starting new HTTP connection (2): test-meownow12345.com
DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:Starting new HTTP connection (3): test-meownow12345.com

Any help is really appreciated, this is quite a frustrating problem.

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