From: Guido van Rossum [mailto:guido@python.org]

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Why is the Python development team introducing bugs into Python and then expecting the user community to fix things that used to work?

I resent your rhetoric, Glyph. Had you read the rest of this thread, you would have seen that the performance regression only happens for sending data at maximum speed over the loopback device, and is negligeable when receiving e.g. data over a LAN. You would also have seen that I have already suggested two different simple fixes.

Indeed - the primary purpose of a beta is IMO to discover these issues by use in as great a number of scenarios as possible before the final release is made. I would be extremely surprised if this cannot be fixed before 2.3 final (in fact, I would be extremely surprised if such a known regression were allowed in 2.3 final). A beta should (excluding implementation bugs) have *correct* behaviour. Performance is not the #1 priority for a beta. Tim Delaney