[Python-Dev] Backport ssl.MemoryBIO on Python 2.7?

[Cory Benfield]

> On 23 May 2017, at 17:58, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 2017-05-23 19:54 GMT-05:00 Cory Benfield <cory at lukasa.co.uk>:
>> In the absence of a Python 2.7 backport, Requests is required to basically use the same solution that Twisted currently does: namely, a mandatory dependency on PyOpenSSL.
> 
> Last time I looked at requests, it embedded all its dependencies. I
> don't like the idea of embedding PyOpenSSL…

There are discussions around Requests unvendoring its dependencies thanks to the improved nature of pip. This might be a year of pretty big changes for Requests.

Cory