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[Python-Dev] RFC: Backport ssl.MemoryBIO and ssl.SSLObject to Python 2.7

Cory Benfield cory at lukasa.co.uk
Mon Jun 5 04:35:32 EDT 2017 
> On 2 Jun 2017, at 17:39, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 3 June 2017 at 02:22, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
>> It’s not just bootstrapping that pip has a problem with for C extensions, it
>> also prevents upgrading PyOpenSSL on Windows because having pip import
>> PyOpenSSL locks the .dll, and we can’t delete it or overwrite it until the
>> pip process exits and no longer imports PyOpenSSL. This isn’t a problem on
>> Linux or macOS or the other *nix clients though. We patch requests as it is
>> today to prevent it from importing simplejson and cryptography for this
>> reason.
> 
> Would requests be loading PyOpenSSL on Windows, though? If the aim is
> to facilitate PEP 543, then I'd expect it to be using the SChannel
> backend in that case.

Only assuming the SChannel backend is available. This would also likely be a third-party Python library so you can just search and replace “PyOpenSSL” above with “SChannel” and hit the exact same problem.

Cory
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