select on windows: must import socket first?

[Irmen de Jong]

When using select() on windows, without import socket first, I get this:

Python 2.3b1 (#40, Apr 25 2003, 19:06:24) [MSC v.1200 32 bit (Intel)] onwin32
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 >>> import select
 >>> select.select([],[],[])
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
select.error: (10093, 'Either the application has not called WSAStartup, or 
WSAStartup failed')
 >>>


Is this intentionally? I can't seem to find anything in the docs that says 
that I have to import socket first. (because that gets rid of this error).

--Irmen

PS. Yeah I know that select on windows doesn't like empty lists...