[Python-Dev] PEP 476: Enabling certificate validation by default! (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Mon Sep 1 02:06:59 CEST 2014

On 1 Sep 2014 08:15, "Donald Stufft" <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

On Aug 31, 2014, at 5:43 PM, Christian Heimes <christian at python.org> wrote: Companies could install them in a system global directory on their servers. Users could put them in their own user site directory and even each virtual env can have one sslcustomize of its own. It's fully backward compatible, doesn't add any flags and developers have the full power of Python for configuration and customization. This may be a dumb question, but why can’t sitecustomize do this already?

It can. The advantage of a separate file is that it won't conflict with existing sitecustomize modules, so (for example) redistributors can add a default sslcustomize, and you can add one to your virtual environments that are integrated with the system Python environment without needing to worry about whether or not there's a global sitecustomize (you'd only have trouble if there was a global sslcustomize).

Cheers, Nick.

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