[Python-Dev] RFC: Backport ssl.MemoryBIO and ssl.SSLObject to Python 2.7

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Fri Jun 2 12:41:04 EDT 2017


On Fri, 2 Jun 2017 12:22:06 -0400
Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
> 
> It’s not just bootstrapping that pip has a problem with for C extensions, it also prevents upgrading PyOpenSSL on Windows because having pip import PyOpenSSL locks the .dll, and we can’t delete it or overwrite it until the pip process exits and no longer imports PyOpenSSL. This isn’t a problem on Linux or macOS or the other *nix clients though. We patch requests as it is today to prevent it from importing simplejson and cryptography for this reason.

Does pip use any advanced features in Requests, at least when it comes
to downloading packages (which is where the bootstrapping issue lies
AFAIU)? Because at this point it should like you may be better off with
a simple pure Python HTTP downloader.

Regards

Antoine.




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