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"Of course, as soon as we use sockets, we will bring SSL in"
Indeed, as it is now. 
Suggestions:
* urllib.URLOpener.open_https shall always exist, but fail on runtime. non-existance with strange "AttributeError" is inelegant..bogus.
Note: concept of late import ftplib, .. is otherwise ok in urllib. same style shall be used for ssl on demand. see python-Bugs-1046077)
* httplib.HTTPSConnection.connect shall late-import ssl
* httplib.HTTPSConnection,HTTPS,FakeSocket shall always exist but error on runtime if ssl is not available; same reason as with open_https
(* httplib.test already late-imports ssl)
* imaplib.IMAP4_SSL.ssl,open shall late-import ssl
* smtplib.starttls should late-import ssl
* smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket should late-import ssl
* smtplib.SSLFakeFile shall always exist (same reason as with open_https)
* poplib.POP3_SSL.__init__ shall late-import ssl
* deprecated socket.ssl() shall late-import _ssl/ssl (and possibly RAND_add, RAND_egd, RAND_status too if they need to exist globally for compabtibilty; constants to be entered fix into socket or _socket; sslerror perhaps a builtin in _socket, which _ssl then uses )