Steve Holden <st...@holdenweb.com> writes: >> Right now, even asking for HTTPS support is too much to ask. Heck, >> even asking for the fake HTTPS support to be identified as such is too >> much, apparently. >> > No, Paul, nobody will complain if you *ask* ...
Er, that wasn't me... > A question I've been asking myself quite a lot recently is how the PSF > could, were funding to be available, direct the development of Python in > specific directions,... Crypto in the stdlib is not a matter of funding or (technical) priorities. It's a policy issue; the maintainers were (at least as of a few years ago) concerned about legal restrictions on crypto in some jurisdictions causing problems with distributing Python if it included crypto. I know that other systems (Java, Mozilla, etc) include crypto but they may have had to jump through some hoops for that purpose. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
