On Sat, Jun 26, 2021 at 4:20 AM Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 8:22 AM Bluenix <bluenixdev@gmail.com> wrote:
I am not fully aware of how ssl.SSLContext is used, but adding __slots__ would prevent this. You would see an error similar to: AttributeError: 'MyClass' object has no attribute 'my_attribute'
That's a reasonable solution, except that it's not backwards compatible. It's possible that there is code out there that for some reason adds private attributes to an SSLContext instance, and using __slots__ would break such usage. (They could perhaps fix their code by using a dummy subclass, but that could well become a non-trivial change to their code, depending on where they get their SSLContext instances.)
So unless there's evidence that nobody does that, we're stuck with the status quo. I'm adding Christian Heimes to the thread in case he has a hunch either way.
Another possible solution - although I'm not sure how practical this would be - would be to have __init__ accept only specific keyword arguments. You could do something like: ctx = ssl.SSLContext(ssl.PROTOCOL_TLS_CLIENT, minimum_version=ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1_1) and it would work, but if you misspell "minimum_version", it would error out. That's actually what I expected it to do, based on the signature; but it doesn't, it simply ignores the argument. Not actually sure what it does with kwargs. ChrisA