Merged revisions 72835 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

........
  r72835 | r.david.murray | 2009-05-22 20:48:58 -0400 (Fri, 22 May 2009) | 4 lines

  Fix Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns
  the socket.  Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
........
diff --git a/Lib/smtplib.py b/Lib/smtplib.py
index afa38bc..41a3c97 100755
--- a/Lib/smtplib.py
+++ b/Lib/smtplib.py
@@ -751,9 +751,10 @@
 
         def _get_socket(self, host, port, timeout):
             if self.debuglevel > 0: print>>stderr, 'connect:', (host, port)
-            self.sock = socket.create_connection((host, port), timeout)
-            self.sock = ssl.wrap_socket(self.sock, self.keyfile, self.certfile)
-            self.file = SSLFakeFile(self.sock)
+            new_socket = socket.create_connection((host, port), timeout)
+            new_socket = ssl.wrap_socket(new_socket, self.keyfile, self.certfile)
+            self.file = SSLFakeFile(new_socket)
+            return new_socket
 
     __all__.append("SMTP_SSL")