AMK has such a package:
It doesn't offer SSL, however. I've compiled a list of SSL libraries for Python:
http://www.cs.fhm.edu/~ifw00065/pyssl/
The "Python OpenSSL wrappers" are BSD licensed and could probably serve as a good basis for a SSL library in Python itself. It's an early release, that I can crash easily if I want to ;-) Also, it would have to be modified to fit Python's coding standards (basically, the docstrings are all written in DocBook; these would have to be translated to normal text). But it's a working solution to start from.
Do you know the author?
The other BSD licensed one is M2Crypto, which is around much longer, but requires SWIG to build. I think SSL support is not reason enough to require SWIG for Python builds. So this one is possibly out.
It's definitely out to require SWIG to build Python from a distribution, but we may require SWIG to hack on this particular module; we could ship the SWIG output. Not ideal, but if otherwise this module is the best candidate, maybe we could live with this.
The third one is LGPL licensed, so it's out immediately.
Really? I believe the LGPL is not "viral" as the GPL. Also, there may be the possibility to shame the author into changing the license. Can you review it a bit more technically? --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)