commit 17c9ac927b97472dd080174fde709d9234848195
author Christian Heimes <christian@python.org> Thu Sep 07 14:14:00 2017 -0700
committer GitHub <noreply@github.com> Thu Sep 07 14:14:00 2017 -0700
tree e163ab88c15117498799d17c6047756f638c99ed
parent 3147b0422cbeb98065666ccf95ab6845ac800fd4

bpo-28958: Improve SSLContext error reporting. (#3414)

Signed-off-by: Christian Heimes <christian@python.org>

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-09-06-19-41-01.bpo-28958.x4-K5F.rst

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-09-06-19-41-01.bpo-28958.x4-K5F.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-09-06-19-41-01.bpo-28958.x4-K5F.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..eb4e206
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-09-06-19-41-01.bpo-28958.x4-K5F.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+ssl.SSLContext() now uses OpenSSL error information when a context cannot be
+instantiated.

Modules/_ssl.c

diff --git a/Modules/_ssl.c b/Modules/_ssl.c
index b8509ac..5ea354a 100644
--- a/Modules/_ssl.c
+++ b/Modules/_ssl.c
@@ -2636,8 +2636,7 @@
         return NULL;
     }
     if (ctx == NULL) {
-        PyErr_SetString(PySSLErrorObject,
-                        "failed to allocate SSL context");
+        _setSSLError(NULL, 0, __FILE__, __LINE__);
         return NULL;
     }