[Python-Dev] Future of SSL

[Guido van Rossum]

> And, btw. one complaint about socketmodule.c I've heard is that it
> doesn't have a C API, it might be necessary to expose some of it with
> the help of a header file.

What would you need from a C API?  Socket objects currently are pretty
thin wrappers around file descriptors.  I'm not against this (although
defining and using an external C API for a Python extension module is
a bit cumbersome due to the requirement for dynamic loading), but I'd
like to see the requirements first.

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