On 12.05.2015 12:04, Donald Stufft wrote: > >> On May 12, 2015, at 3:57 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote: >> >> In a user based installation (which most applications shipping >> their own Python installation are), you can always do this >> provided you can gain the application user permissions. > > Of course, if the application is shipping it’s own Python then > it has to actually do something to update to 2.7.9 and it can > add it’s own option to disable TLS verification. I personally > think that the application providing that option is the *right* way > and all these other things are, at best, just temporary shims until > the applications do that.
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