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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+"""
+    sleekxmpp.xmlstream.filesocket
+    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+    This module is a shim for correcting deficiencies in the file
+    socket implementation of Python2.6.
+
+    Part of SleekXMPP: The Sleek XMPP Library
+
+    :copyright: (c) 2011 Nathanael C. Fritz
+    :license: MIT, see LICENSE for more details
+"""
+
+from socket import _fileobject
+import socket
+
+
+class FileSocket(_fileobject):
+
+    """Create a file object wrapper for a socket to work around
+    issues present in Python 2.6 when using sockets as file objects.
+
+    The parser for :class:`~xml.etree.cElementTree` requires a file, but
+    we will be reading from the XMPP connection socket instead.
+    """
+
+    def read(self, size=4096):
+        """Read data from the socket as if it were a file."""
+        if self._sock is None:
+            return None
+        data = self._sock.recv(size)
+        if data is not None:
+            return data
+
+
+class Socket26(socket._socketobject):
+
+    """A custom socket implementation that uses our own FileSocket class
+    to work around issues in Python 2.6 when using sockets as files.
+    """
+
+    def makefile(self, mode='r', bufsize=-1):
+        """makefile([mode[, bufsize]]) -> file object
+        Return a regular file object corresponding to the socket.  The mode
+        and bufsize arguments are as for the built-in open() function."""
+        return FileSocket(self._sock, mode, bufsize)