[Python-checkins] peps: PEP 466: finish incomplete edit

[nick.coghlan]

http://hg.python.org/peps/rev/3118239a142a
changeset:   5432:3118239a142a
user:        Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>
date:        Wed Mar 26 22:05:39 2014 +1000
summary:
  PEP 466: finish incomplete edit

files:
  pep-0466.txt |  7 +++++--
  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


diff --git a/pep-0466.txt b/pep-0466.txt
--- a/pep-0466.txt
+++ b/pep-0466.txt
@@ -86,9 +86,12 @@
 As in the Python 3 series, the backported ``ssl.create_default_context()``
 API is granted a backwards compatibility exemption that permits the
 protocol, options, cipher and other settings of the created SSL context to
-be made
+be updated in maintenance releases to use higher default security settings.
+This allows them to appropriately balance compatibility and security at the
+time of the maintenance release, rather than at the time of the original
+feature release.
 
-This PEP does *not* grant any exemptions to the usual backwards
+This PEP does *not* grant any other exemptions to the usual backwards
 compatibility policy for maintenance releases. Instead, by explicitly
 encouraging the use of feature based checks, it is designed to make it easier
 to write more secure cross-version compatible Python software, while still

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