Using SSL in socket module.

[Carl Waldbieser]

I am trying to understand how the SSL object in the socket module is
supposed to be used. From looking at the documentation, I can work out
that you need to pass a socket into the ssl() function, and you get back an
SSL object that has write() and read() methods similar to a file object.

However, what I don't get is the context you are supposed to use this object
in. I thought that SSL was like a socket, but the transmission would be
encrypted. So I guess I was expecting the SSL object to look like a socket
object-- so that you could just use an SSL object as a drop-in replacement
for a socket object when you wanted to encrypt the transmission.

Am I missing something fundamental here?

Thanks for any pointers.