[Security-sig] Unified TLS API for Python

[Cory Benfield]

> On 13 Jan 2017, at 09:07, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> I was imagining something along the lines of
> 
> ClientContext({...}).wrap_socket(...)
> 
> where ClientContext.__init__ would do the validation. Or there are
> various other ways to slot the pieces together, but in general
> validation doesn't need to be done incrementally; there's going to be
> some place where the config dict hits the library and it can/should be
> validated at that point. And before that point we get all the dict
> niceties for free.

What are the dict niceties, exactly? I’m still not seeing what the advantage is in throwing away a typed and restricted API for a dict is.

Cory

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