The patch adds two methods to SSLContext which return information about loaded x509 certs, CRL and CAs.
Example:
>>> ctx = ssl.SSLContext(ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1)
>>> ctx.load_verify_locations(SVN_PYTHON_ORG_ROOT_CERT)
>>> ctx.cert_store_stats()
{'crl': 0, 'x509': 1}
>>> ctx.get_ca_list()
[{'issuer': ((('organizationName', 'Root CA'),),
             (('organizationalUnitName', 'http://www.cacert.org'),),
             (('commonName', 'CA Cert Signing Authority'),),
             (('emailAddress', 'support@cacert.org'),)),
  'notAfter': 'Mar 29 12:29:49 2033 GMT',
  'notBefore': 'Mar 30 12:29:49 2003 GMT',
  'serialNumber': '00',
  'subject': ((('organizationName', 'Root CA'),),
              (('organizationalUnitName', 'http://www.cacert.org'),),
              (('commonName', 'CA Cert Signing Authority'),),
              (('emailAddress', 'support@cacert.org'),)),
  'version': 3}]

New patch
* method has been renamed to get_ca_list() and returns only CA certs
* get_ca_list(binary_form=True) returns CA certs in DER format
* cert_store_stats() returns three elements: X.509 CA cert count, X.509 non-CA count and CRL count

Updated patch with Antoine's review:
* method is now called get_ca_certs()
* cert_store_stats() returns total amount of X.509 as 'x509' key and X.509 certs with CA purpose in 'x509_ca'.
* documentation

New changeset 38e759e4c9e6 by Christian Heimes in branch 'default':
Issue #18147: Add diagnostic functions to ssl.SSLContext().
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/38e759e4c9e6

New changeset ae0734493f6b by Christian Heimes in branch 'default':
Issue #18147: Add missing documentation for SSLContext.get_ca_certs().
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/ae0734493f6b

It looks like the doc for get_ca_certs wasn't missing, so now it appears twice in the docs.  I'm not sure which is the preferred wording, so I'll leave it to Christian to fix it.

New changeset d88b5469fdd3 by Antoine Pitrou in branch '3.4':
Fix duplicate doc entry for SSLContext.get_ca_certs()
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/d88b5469fdd3
New changeset d7352db81b50 by Antoine Pitrou in branch 'default':
Fix duplicate doc entry for SSLContext.get_ca_certs()
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/d7352db81b50

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