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We have confirmed that the socket module in Python 2.3b1 
and 2.3b2 fails to compile under these versions of IRIX:

6.5.10, MIPSpro 7.3.1.2m
6.5.19, MIPSpro 7.3.1.3m
6.5.20, MIPSpro 7.3.1.3m (latest available, to my knowledge)

If Python 2.3 goes out without a working socket module it 
will be useless for many people in science where IRIX is still 
found quite frequently. Maybe even worse, we will also no 
longer be able to advertise Python as a language that "runs 
everywhere."