Provide Socket-Style Interface

[DirectXMan12]

From Simo Sorce :

it would probably be very nice to build
also a socket type interface on top of the wrapping primitives.

Something like:

gd = client.open('service@name', socket) # socket is a tcp socket or other where you pass messages. (gd for gss descruptor :-)

gd.send(xyz)
resp = gd.recv()

Then gd.send() and gd.recv() would send/receive encrypted message
transparently. It would be great if this allowed someone to build an
interface that can transparently switch between a raw TCP (or whatever)
socket and a GSSAPI protected socket by simply passing on or the other
fd in python so that it becomes completely transparent to the rest of
the app.

[DirectXMan12]

I could also have it have context manager style (as per the socket interface anyway), like

with client.open('service@name') as gd:  # auto open a socket too, if not provided
    gd.send(xyz)
    resp = gd.recv()

I like that idea 👍