Why does Python say this Netscape cookie file isn't valid?

I'm writing a Google Scholar parser, and based on this answer, I'm setting cookies before grabbing the HTML. This is the contents of my cookies.txt file:

# Netscape HTTP Cookie File
# http://curlm.haxx.se/rfc/cookie_spec.html
# This file was generated by libcurl! Edit at your own risk.

.scholar.google.com     TRUE    /       FALSE   2147483647      GSP     ID=353e8f974d766dcd:CF=2
.google.com     TRUE    /       FALSE   1317124758      PREF    ID=353e8f974d766dcd:TM=1254052758:LM=1254052758:S=_biVh02e4scrJT1H
.scholar.google.co.uk   TRUE    /       FALSE   2147483647      GSP     ID=f3f18b3b5a7c2647:CF=2
.google.co.uk   TRUE    /       FALSE   1317125123      PREF    ID=f3f18b3b5a7c2647:TM=1254053123:LM=1254053123:S=UqjRcTObh7_sARkN

and this is the code I'm using to grab the HTML:

import http.cookiejar
import urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error

def get_page(url, headers="", params=""):
    filename = "cookies.txt"
    request = urllib.request.Request(url, None, headers, params)
    cookies = http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar(filename, None, None)
    cookies.load()
    cookie_handler = urllib.request.HTTPCookieProcessor(cookies)
    redirect_handler = urllib.request.HTTPRedirectHandler()
    opener = urllib.request.build_opener(redirect_handler,cookie_handler)
    response = opener.open(request)
    return response

start = 0
search = "Ricardo Altamirano"
results_per_fetch = 20
host = "http://scholar.google.com"
base_url = "/scholar"
headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; U; ru; rv:5.0.1.6) Gecko/20110501 Firefox/5.0.1 Firefox/5.0.1'}
params = urllib.parse.urlencode({'start' : start,
                                 'q': '"' + search + '"',
                                 'btnG' : "",
                                 'hl' : 'en',
                                 'num': results_per_fetch,
                                 'as_sdt' : '1,14'})

url = base_url + "?" + params
resp = get_page(host + url, headers, params)

The full traceback is:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Users/ricardo/Desktop/Google-Scholar/BibTex/test.py", line 29, in <module>
    resp = get_page(host + url, headers, params)
  File "C:/Users/ricardo/Desktop/Google-Scholar/BibTex/test.py", line 8, in get_page
    cookies.load()
  File "C:\Python32\lib\http\cookiejar.py", line 1767, in load
    self._really_load(f, filename, ignore_discard, ignore_expires)
  File "C:\Python32\lib\http\cookiejar.py", line 1997, in _really_load
    filename)
http.cookiejar.LoadError: 'cookies.txt' does not look like a Netscape format cookies file

I've looked around for documentation on the Netscape cookie file format, but I can't find anything that shows me the problem. Are there newlines that need to be included? I changed the line endings to Unix style, just in case, but that didn't solve the problem. The closest specification I can find is this, which doesn't indicate anything to me that I'm missing. The fields on each of the last four lines are separated by tabs, not spaces, and everything else looks correct to me.