This patch doesn't appear to work for python2.5.1 ->

Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jun 15 2008, 18:24:51) 
[GCC 4.3.0 20080428 (Red Hat 4.3.0-8)] on linux2
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>>> from nntplib import NNTP
>>> conn = NNTP('newszilla6.xs4all.nl')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/nntplib.py", line 114, in __init__
    self.sock = socket.create_connection((host, port))
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'create_connection'


(at least for me it doesn't work...
Linux hostnamehere 2.6.26.6-79.fc9.i686 #1 SMP Fri Oct 17 14:52:14 EDT 
2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux)

I'd be happy to try something else, or debug in other ways it that'd 
help... This really ought to get fixed if possible.