[Python-Dev] Python-Dev Digest, Vol 129, Issue 81

[Terry Reedy]

On 4/28/2014 5:01 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:
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> On Mon Apr 28 2014 at 4:58:35 PM, Mike Miller <python-dev at mgmiller.net
> <mailto:python-dev at mgmiller.net>> wrote:
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>     Hi, note the pep, it makes allowances for security enhancements.
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> The PEP in question is about fixing fundamentally broken security issues
> in Python 2.7 (e.g. updating OpenSSL). Tweaking where Python is
> installed by default on Windows is not fundamentally broken, it's a
> difference of opinion as to whether the current defaults are the best
> option or not.

Besides which, the PEP was cut down to a specific list of changes. Any 
more would need a separate dicussion.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy