Message 226237 - Python tracker

Message226237

Author	pitrou
Recipients	Ben.Darnell, alex, christian.heimes, dstufft, ezio.melotti, geertj, giampaolo.rodola, gvanrossum, janssen, pitrou, sbt, vstinner, yselivanov
Date	2014-09-01.17:43:40
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Message-id	<1409593421.14.0.103928574374.issue21965@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> We can leave these undocumented at the Python level if you prefer. I'd rather that indeed. If there's a specific need, we can expose them as a separate issue. > Maybe just "SSLInstance", would that be better than "SSLObject"? That doesn't sound much better :-) Ok, let's keep SSLObject then. > I believe that the overall _ssl/ssl code could be simplified by: [snip] That would be nice. Would that also handle e.g. socket timeouts? > To use SSLObject as a mixin it would have to be aware of these two uses of its subclasses. It could be done but I don't think it's 100% clean either. Fair enough. We just have to make sure to implement and test new APIs twice (e.g the version() method in issue20421).

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> We can leave these undocumented at the Python level if you prefer.

I'd rather that indeed. If there's a specific need, we can expose them as a separate issue.

> Maybe just "SSLInstance", would that be better than "SSLObject"?

That doesn't sound much better :-) Ok, let's keep SSLObject then.

> I believe that the overall _ssl/ssl code could be simplified by: [snip]

That would be nice. Would that also handle e.g. socket timeouts?

> To use SSLObject as a mixin it would have to be aware of these two uses of its subclasses. It could be done but I don't think it's 100% clean either.

Fair enough. We just have to make sure to implement and test new APIs twice (e.g the version() method in issue20421).

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