Feasibility of Python 2.7 security update in 14.04

[Clint Byrum]

Excerpts from Ernst Sjöstrand's message of 2016-10-21 11:08:07 +0200:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm all in favor of updating things like this, however these two have the
> potential to break some custom scripts out there I think:
> 
>    - HTTPS certificate validation using the system's certificate store is
>    now enabled by default. See PEP 476
>    <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0476/> for details.
>    - SSLv3 has been disabled by default in httplib and its reverse
>    dependencies due to the POODLE attack
>    <https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/10/14/poodle.html>.
> 

That's a good point. However, things "broken" by this were already
_extremely_ broken.