On 1 Sep 2014 16:05, "Nick Coghlan"
The final change would be to seed the context factory map appropriately for the standard library modules where we wanted to keep the *old* default:
for modname in ("nntplib", "poplib", "imaplib", "ftplib", "smtplib", "asyncio.selector_events", "urllib.request", "http.client"): named_contexts[modname] = create_legacy_context
The list I have above is for *all* current uses of "sss._create_stdlib_context". The backwards incompatible part of PEP 476 would then just be about removing names from that list (currently just "http.client", but I'd suggest "asyncio.selector_events" as another candidate, taking advantage of asyncio's provisional API status).
Update on this: Christian & I both like the SSL named context and customisation idea independently of the proposal to change the default behaviour, so we're going to write it up as a separate PEP. Changing the default behaviour would then be reduced to a proposal to take a couple of module names off the "uses legacy SSL settings" list. Cheers, Nick.