SOCKS proxy in Python?

[starmaven at gmail.com]

I'm looking for a way to implement socket connections through a SOCKS
(4/5) proxy in Python. I don't want to use Twisted or anything
complicated - just a simple replacement for the socket library. The
only thing I could find was for Python 1.0.1, and I couldn't get that
to compile. Apparently it's really trivial to rewrite the socket
library (a manner of a few lines) but I am not a protocol or networking
guru.
Can anyone help me?