"John Nagle" <nagle at animats.com> wrote in message news:FvtWh.11824$YL5.6282 at newssvr29.news.prodigy.net... | This was reported in 2003, and a patch was uploaded in 2005, but the patch | never made it into Python 2.4 or 2.5. If the patch is still open, perhaps you could review it. tjr