[Python-Dev] RFC: Backport ssl.MemoryBIO and ssl.SSLObject to Python 2.7 (original) (raw)

Donald Stufft donald at stufft.io
Thu Jun 1 15:57:27 EDT 2017

On Jun 1, 2017, at 3:51 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

Linux users often use the OS-supplied Python, and so getting the distributions to upgrade, and to backport upgrades to old versions of their OS and (push those backports as required updates) is the route to get the bulk of the users there. Experience on pip seems to indicate this is unlikely to happen, in practice. Mac OS users who use the system Python are, as I understand it, stuck with a pretty broken version (I don't know if newer versions of the OS change that). But distributions like Macports are more common and more up to date.

Note that on macOS, within the next year macOS users using the system Python are going to be unable to talk to PyPI anyways (unless Apple does something here, which I think they will), but in either case, Apple was pretty good about upgrading to 2.7.9 (I think they had the first OS released that supported 2.7.9?).

— Donald Stufft

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