On Tue 23 Aug 2011, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> As you can see, I just pushed a change that removed the new
> methods from SSLSocket objects. If anyone wants to step up with
> a valid use case (not already covered by wrap_socket),
> preferably with a patch to add them back that includes proper
> tests and documentation changes, please open a new feature
> request and attach the new patch to that issue.

Hi, sorry about the trouble caused by the broken tests, but
SSLSocket should at least override sendmsg() to stop misguided
programs sending data in the clear:

http://bugs.python.org/issue12835