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-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-09-06-19-41-01.bpo-28958.x4-K5F.rst2
-rw-r--r--Modules/_ssl.c3
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
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.
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 @@ _ssl__SSLContext_impl(PyTypeObject *type, int proto_version)
return NULL;
}
if (ctx == NULL) {
- PyErr_SetString(PySSLErrorObject,
- "failed to allocate SSL context");
+ _setSSLError(NULL, 0, __FILE__, __LINE__);
return NULL;
}