I'm +1 on this, I even wrote the patch: https://bugs.python.org/issue22559 :-) If you're interested in making sure that still applies and tests still pass, I'd be a big fan.
In addition to all the benefits you mentioned, it also substantially reduces the diff between 2.7 and 3.x (or at least it did when I originally wrote it). Cheers, Alex On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 8:46 PM, Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Would you be ok to backport ssl.MemoryBIO and ssl.SSLObject on Python > 2.7? I can do the backport. > > https://docs.python.org/dev/library/ssl.html#ssl.MemoryBIO > > Cory Benfield told me that it's a blocking issue for him to implement > his PEP 543 -- A Unified TLS API for Python 2.7: > > https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0543/ > > And I expect that if a new cool TLS API happens, people will want to > use it on Python 2.7-3.6, not only on Python 3.7. Security evolves > more quickly that the current Python release process, and people wants > to keep their application secure. > > From what I understood, he wants to first implement an abstract > MemoryBIO API (http://sans-io.readthedocs.io/ like API? I'm not sure > about that), and then implement a socket/FD based on top of that. > Maybe later, some implementations might have a fast-path using > socket/FD directly. > > He described me his PEP and I strongly support it (sorry, I missed it > when he posted it on python-dev), but we decided (Guido van Rossum, > Christian Heimes, Cory Benfield and me, see the tweet below) to not > put this in the stdlib right now, but spend more time on testing it on > Twisted, asyncio, requests, etc. So publishing an implementation on > PyPI was proposed instead. It seems like we agreed on a smooth plan > (or am I wrong, Cory?). > > https://twitter.com/VictorStinner/status/865467388141027329 > > I'm quite sure that Twisted will love MemoryBIO on Python 2.7 as well, > to implement TLS, especially on Windows using IOCP. Currently, > external libraries (C extensions) are required. > > I'm not sure if the PEP 466 should be amended for that? Is a new PEP > really needed? MemoryBIO/SSLObject are tiny. Nick (Coghlan): what do > you think? > > https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0466/ > > Victor > -- "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -- Evelyn Beatrice Hall (summarizing Voltaire) "The people's good is the highest law." -- Cicero GPG Key fingerprint: D1B3 ADC0 E023 8CA6
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