[Python-Dev] PEP 466: Proposed policy change for handling network security enhancements

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 19:07:51 -0400
Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
> As someone who is deeply biased towards improving the packaging tool chain and getting people to use it I think that most people will simply use the Stdlib even if a more secure alternative exists. Infact one does exist and I still see almost everyone using the stdlib ssl instead of pyopenssl.

pyopenssl exposes a different API from ssl, though. It's not just a
matter of flipping an import statement.

Regards

Antoine.