[Python-Dev] Python for windows.

[Bugbee, Larry]

Not necessarily.  I have no problems with hashlib or Python/M2Crypto/OpenSSL as long as I'm doing memory-oriented operations.  It is only when the function does I/O that errors occur.  ...like reading/writing a PEM file, randpool.dat, etc.  



-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Janssen [mailto:janssen at parc.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 5:54 PM
To: Bugbee, Larry
Cc: "Martin v. Löwis"; Koenig, Gerald; python-dev at python.org
Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Python for windows.

Bugbee, Larry <larry.bugbee at boeing.com> wrote:

> For most custom apps this is a simple process of adding "#include 
> applink.c" to the app's main().  The problem for Python developers is 
> that their Python program is not main(), and if python.exe does not 
> have the OPENSSL_Applink interface, they cannot import M2Crypto, 
> pyOpenSSL, or use ctypes to wrap OpenSSL, and write a PEM file without 
> throwing an error.  (That said, Daniel Clark says he is not 
> experiencing problems with NCrypt.  I have not verified.)

I'm probably missing something here.  Python 2.6/3.x uses OpenSSL for the hashlib and ssl modules.  Doesn't this mean that this applink.c file is part of the standard build now?

Bill