Incompatibility between socket and httplib in python CVS build.

[Fredrik Lundh]

François Pinard <pinard at iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> "Fredrik Lundh" <effbot at telia.com> writes:
>
> > if you use experimental versions, please make sure you check out the
> > latest code before reporting bugs...
>
> How old a fetch should be before I consider it old?  A week?  A day?
> One hour?  What is the expected trade-off between the value attached to
> having a bug reported, and the burden on pretesters?  Some of us, like me,
> are usually not connected to the Internet, and I would just not report a
> bug if the required work on me is too high, while possibly being useless.

sure -- it's your time.

but anyone insisting on using the bleeding edge development CVS
version (instead of a stable version) can save a lot of time by sub-
scribing to the python-cvs mailing list.   in that way, you'll *know*
what's changed in the bleeding edge version.

(in this case, the socket module was updated a few hours before
the standard library.  the standard library was updated about 20
hours before the bug report).

</F>