QPID-954: added fallbacks and fixes for running the python client on python 2.3

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/qpid/trunk/qpid@655976 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

1 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/python/qpid/compat.py b/python/qpid/compat.py
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index 0000000000..26f60fb8aa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python/qpid/compat.py
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+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+#
+
+try:
+  set = set
+except NameError:
+  from sets import Set as set
+
+try:
+  from socket import SHUT_RDWR
+except ImportError:
+  SHUT_RDWR = 2