Done and done. Alex
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 4:13 PM, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > +1 on Nick's suggestion. (Might also mention that this is the reason why > both functions should exist and have compatible signatures.) > > Also please, please, please add explicit mention of Python 2.7, 3.4 and > 3.5 in the Abstract (for example in the 3rd paragraph of the abstract). > > On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 20 September 2014 08:34, Alex Gaynor <alex.gay...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Pushed a new version which I believe adresses all of these. I added an >> > example of opting-out with urllib.urlopen, let me know if there's any >> other >> > APIs you think I should show an example with. >> >> It would be worth explicitly stating the process global monkeypatching >> hack: >> >> import ssl >> ssl._create_default_https_context = ssl._create_unverified_context >> >> Adding that hack to sitecustomize allows corporate sysadmins that can >> update their standard operating environment more easily than they can >> fix invalid certificate infrastructure to work around the problem on >> behalf of their users. It also helps out users that will be able to >> deal with such broken infrastructure without updating each and every >> one of their scripts. >> >> It's deliberately ugly because it's a genuinely bad idea that folks >> should want to avoid using, but as a matter of practical reality, >> corporate IT departments are chronically understaffed, and often fully >> committed to fighting the crisis du jour, without sufficient time >> being available for regular infrastructure maintenance tasks. >> >> Regards, >> Nick. >> >> -- >> Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia >> > > > > -- > --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) > -- "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -- Evelyn Beatrice Hall (summarizing Voltaire) "The people's good is the highest law." -- Cicero GPG Key fingerprint: 125F 5C67 DFE9 4084
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