On 12 May 2015 at 21:09, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote: > If you control the app you don't need to do that. All relevant api accept the context parameter. The shims are only useful when you don't control the app. So an app shipping their own python doesn't fall under that. I think the "bundled Python" scenario MAL is interested in is this one: 1. An application with a bundled CPython runtime is using the verification defaults 2. Upgraded the bundled Python to 2.7.9 3. Didn't provide new configuration settings to disable certificate verification 4. Is being upgraded in an environment where verifying certificates makes the app unusable for environmental reasons related to certificate management The PyRun single-file Python interpreter has a similar need, where some apps than ran fine under 2.7.8 will need a way to disable cert verification in 2.7.9+ on a per-application basis, *without* modifying the applications. Both of those make sense to me as cases where the environment variable based security downgrade approach is the "least bad" answer available, which is why I eventually agreed it should be one of the recommendations in the PEP. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia
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