[Python-Dev] SSL support in _socket

[Guido van Rossum]

> Perhaps we should simply let setup.py build two extensions:
> _socket (without SSL) and _socketssl (with SSL) ?! If the
> _socketssl build or import fails for some reason, Python 
> could still pick up the _socket extension in socket.py.

+1

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)