Victor Stinner vstinner at redhat.com
Wed May 30 17:21:23 EDT 2018

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2018-05-30 18:02 GMT+02:00 Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com>:
> On Wed, May 30, 2018, 07:30 Victor Stinner <vstinner at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> Does anyone would benefit of MemoryBIO in Python 2.7? Twisted,
>> asyncio, trio, urllib3, anyone else?
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> Asyncio and trio are strongly py3-only. Twisted's TLS functionality is built
> around pyopenssl, so the stdlib ssl module doesn't affect them. Urllib3 uses
> the socket-wrapping APIs, not MemoryBIO. So fwiw I don't think any of those
> projects would benefit.

MemoryBIO was the key feature which allowed to implement TLS for the
ProactorEventLoop (IOCP) of asyncio.

I'm not sure that the Python 2.7 ssl module is a drop-in replacement
for pyopenssl.

Victor

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