[Python-Dev] Request for pronouncement on PEP 493 (HTTPS verification backport guidance)

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Nick Coghlan writes:

 > This is a significant rewrite that switches the PEP to a Standards
 > Track PEP proposing two new features for 2.7.12+: an
 > "ssl._verify_https_certificates()" configuration function, and a
 > "PYTHONHTTPSVERIFY" environment variable (although writing them
 > together like that makes me wonder if the latter should now be
 > "PYTHONVERIFYHTTPS" instead).

+1 on the same order of "words" in the function name and the
evnironment variable.  I tend to prefer
"ssl._https_verify_certificates" since these aren't "HTTPS
certificates".