This patch comes from in-house.  It has not yet been submitted upstream,
but submission is planned.

--- Python-2.7.10/Modules/_ssl.c.~1~	2015-05-10 10:17:05 -0800
+++ Python-2.7.10/Modules/_ssl.c	2015-05-18 14:51:53 -0800
@@ -2050,6 +2050,8 @@
     options = SSL_OP_ALL & ~SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS;
     if (proto_version != PY_SSL_VERSION_SSL2)
         options |= SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2;
+    if (proto_version != PY_SSL_VERSION_SSL3)
+        options |= SSL_OP_NO_SSLv3;
     SSL_CTX_set_options(self->ctx, options);
 
 #ifndef OPENSSL_NO_ECDH
--- Python-2.7.10/Lib/test/test_ssl.py.~1~	2015-05-10 10:17:04 -0800
+++ Python-2.7.10/Lib/test/test_ssl.py	2015-05-18 14:53:04 -0800
@@ -714,10 +714,7 @@
     @skip_if_broken_ubuntu_ssl
     def test_options(self):
         ctx = ssl.SSLContext(ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1)
-        # OP_ALL | OP_NO_SSLv2 is the default value
-        self.assertEqual(ssl.OP_ALL | ssl.OP_NO_SSLv2,
-                         ctx.options)
-        ctx.options |= ssl.OP_NO_SSLv3
+        # OP_ALL | OP_NO_SSLv2 | OP_NO_SSLv3 is the default value
         self.assertEqual(ssl.OP_ALL | ssl.OP_NO_SSLv2 | ssl.OP_NO_SSLv3,
                          ctx.options)
         if can_clear_options():
@@ -2222,7 +2219,7 @@
                 sys.stdout.write("\n")
             if hasattr(ssl, 'PROTOCOL_SSLv2'):
                 try:
-                    try_protocol_combo(ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23, ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv2, True)
+                    try_protocol_combo(ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23, ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv2, False)
                 except socket.error as x:
                     # this fails on some older versions of OpenSSL (0.9.7l, for instance)
                     if support.verbose:
@@ -2230,17 +2227,17 @@
                             " SSL2 client to SSL23 server test unexpectedly failed:\n %s\n"
                             % str(x))
             if hasattr(ssl, 'PROTOCOL_SSLv3'):
-                try_protocol_combo(ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23, ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv3, 'SSLv3')
+                try_protocol_combo(ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23, ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv3, False)
             try_protocol_combo(ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23, ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23, True)
             try_protocol_combo(ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23, ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1, 'TLSv1')
 
             if hasattr(ssl, 'PROTOCOL_SSLv3'):
-                try_protocol_combo(ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23, ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv3, 'SSLv3', ssl.CERT_OPTIONAL)
+                try_protocol_combo(ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23, ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv3, False, ssl.CERT_OPTIONAL)
             try_protocol_combo(ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23, ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23, True, ssl.CERT_OPTIONAL)
             try_protocol_combo(ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23, ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1, 'TLSv1', ssl.CERT_OPTIONAL)
 
             if hasattr(ssl, 'PROTOCOL_SSLv3'):
-                try_protocol_combo(ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23, ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv3, 'SSLv3', ssl.CERT_REQUIRED)
+                try_protocol_combo(ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23, ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv3, False, ssl.CERT_REQUIRED)
             try_protocol_combo(ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23, ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23, True, ssl.CERT_REQUIRED)
             try_protocol_combo(ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23, ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1, 'TLSv1', ssl.CERT_REQUIRED)
 
@@ -2272,7 +2269,8 @@
             try_protocol_combo(ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv3, ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1, False)
             if no_sslv2_implies_sslv3_hello():
                 # No SSLv2 => client will use an SSLv3 hello on recent OpenSSLs
-                try_protocol_combo(ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv3, ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23, 'SSLv3',
+                # until we disabled SSLv3 for Poodle
+                try_protocol_combo(ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv3, ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23, False,
                                    client_options=ssl.OP_NO_SSLv2)
 
         @skip_if_broken_ubuntu_ssl