[Bug 1410544] Re: Upgrade to Python 2.7.17 (backporting features from PEP 466)

[Sebastien Bacher]

** Tags removed: upgrade-software-version
** Tags added: upgrade-xenial-version

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Title:
  Upgrade to Python 2.7.17 (backporting features from PEP 466)

Status in python-defaults package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Following @actionparsnip's suggestion, re-filing
  https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-
  defaults/+question/260428 as a bug. Quoted from the original question:

  "What are the official plans for Python 2.7.9 (and further 2.7 patch
  releases) in supported releases? As per PEP 466
  (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0466/), these will receive
  handpicked security-related feature additions from the Python 3
  series. Will these new releases be included in released-and-still-
  supported Ubuntu versions? (I realise Ubuntu releases don't generally
  get new upstream software versions, but I feel this case might warrant
  an exception.)

  Note that I'm specifically asking about the *features* mentioned in
  PEP 466 (and any future additions), i.e. the new functions in the hmac
  and hashlib modules and the backported ssl module, not any security
  issues in existing functionality."

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