diff --git a/slixmpp/xmlstream/filesocket.py b/slixmpp/xmlstream/filesocket.py
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--- a/slixmpp/xmlstream/filesocket.py
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-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-"""
-    slixmpp.xmlstream.filesocket
-    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-    This module is a shim for correcting deficiencies in the file
-    socket implementation of Python2.6.
-
-    Part of Slixmpp: The Slick XMPP Library
-
-    :copyright: (c) 2011 Nathanael C. Fritz
-    :license: MIT, see LICENSE for more details
-"""
-
-from socket import _fileobject
-import errno
-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
-        while True:
-            try:
-                data = self._sock.recv(size)
-                break
-            except socket.error as serr:
-                if serr.errno != errno.EINTR:
-                    raise
-        if data is not None:
-            return data
-
-
-class Socket26(socket.socket):
-
-    """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)