On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 8:10 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote:
> The problem with backporting SSLContext is really that 1) you are adding > a non-minimal new API set to the 2.7 feature set; 2) you must make it so > that other stdlib modules take advantage of the new APIs (otherwise > why bother?). > I actually worry about another scenario. Suppose we backport SSLContext to 2.7.7. There is plenty of software out there nowadays that uses a single source for Python 2 and 3 compatibility. Given that SSLContext until now has only been available in Python 3, and given the recommendation to use dynamic feature detection, not version checks, it's at least *conceivable* that some library detects SSLContext and switches to some code that uses Python-3-only features (of the variety that don't cause syntax errors in Python 2). -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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