diff --git a/sleekxmpp/xmlstream/filesocket.py b/sleekxmpp/xmlstream/filesocket.py
index 07b395d..b0c1556 100644
--- a/sleekxmpp/xmlstream/filesocket.py
+++ b/sleekxmpp/xmlstream/filesocket.py
@@ -5,21 +5,36 @@
 
     See the file LICENSE for copying permission.
 """
+
 from socket import _fileobject
 import socket
 
-class filesocket(_fileobject):
+class FileSocket(_fileobject):
 
-	def read(self, size=4096):
-		data = self._sock.recv(size)
-		if data is not None:
-			return data
+    """
+    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 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."""
+        data = self._sock.recv(size)
+        if data is not None:
+            return data
 
 class Socket26(socket._socketobject):
 
-	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)
+    """
+    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)
 
diff --git a/sleekxmpp/xmlstream/xmlstream.py b/sleekxmpp/xmlstream/xmlstream.py
index bf39bb3..415567e 100644
--- a/sleekxmpp/xmlstream/xmlstream.py
+++ b/sleekxmpp/xmlstream/xmlstream.py
@@ -139,8 +139,7 @@ class XMLStream(object):
 			self.socket = ssl.wrap_socket(self.socket, ssl_version=ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1, do_handshake_on_connect=False)
 			self.socket.do_handshake()
 			if sys.version_info < (3,0):
-				from . filesocket import filesocket
-				self.filesocket = filesocket(self.socket)
+				self.filesocket = filesocket.FileSocket(self.socket)
 			else:
 				self.filesocket = self.socket.makefile('rb', 0)
 			return True