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

[Cory Benfield]

> On 23 May 2017, at 20:34, David Wilson <dw+python-dev at hmmz.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 06:13:17PM -0700, Cory Benfield wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> In which case, what is to prevent Requests from just depending on
> pyOpenSSL as usual?

Requests currently does not depend on PyOpenSSL on 2.7: it’s simply an optional dependency for those who need it.

Cory