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Author dstufft
Recipients alex, barry, bkabrda, doko, dstufft, janssen, lemburg, ncoghlan, pitrou, r.david.murray, rkuska, vstinner
Date 2015-04-05.20:49:56
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> I don't consider monkey patching a proper way to configure a Python
> installation.

The point is that that TLS validation on/off isn't conceptually a Python level
configuration option, that's going to be a per application configuration
option. The monkeypatching is simply an escape hatch to give people time to
update their applications (or pressure whoever wrote the application) to
support the configuration option that really belongs at the application
level. It *should* feel improper because the entire concept of a Python level
on/off switch isn't proper and making it feel more proper by adding an official
API or config file for doing it is only giving footguns out to people.
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