diff --git a/openerp/tools/config.py b/openerp/tools/config.py
index 70e62ef4ce1..b07bbf99c05 100644
--- a/openerp/tools/config.py
+++ b/openerp/tools/config.py
@@ -49,7 +49,9 @@ class MyOption (optparse.Option, object):
         super(MyOption, self).__init__(*opts, **attrs)
 
 
-def check_ssl():
+DEFAULT_LOG_HANDLER = ':INFO'
+
+def _check_ssl():
     try:
         from OpenSSL import SSL
         import socket
@@ -58,8 +60,6 @@ def check_ssl():
     except:
         return False
 
-DEFAULT_LOG_HANDLER = ':INFO'
-
 def _get_default_datadir():
     home = os.path.expanduser('~')
     if os.path.exists(home):
@@ -72,6 +72,20 @@ def _get_default_datadir():
     # No "version" kwarg as session and filestore paths are shared against series
     return func(appname=release.product_name, appauthor=release.author)
 
+def _deduplicate_loggers(loggers):
+    """ Avoid saving multiple logging levels for the same loggers to a save
+    file, that just takes space and the list can potentially grow unbounded
+    if for some odd reason people use :option`odoo.py --save`` all the time.
+    """
+    # dict(iterable) -> the last item of iterable for any given key wins,
+    # which is what we want and expect. Output order should not matter as
+    # there are no duplicates within the output sequence
+    return (
+        '{}:{}'.format(logger, level)
+        for logger, level in dict(it.split(':') for it in loggers).iteritems()
+    )
+
+
 class configmanager(object):
     def __init__(self, fname=None):
         """Constructor.
@@ -101,7 +115,7 @@ class configmanager(object):
 
         self.misc = {}
         self.config_file = fname
-        self.has_ssl = check_ssl()
+        self.has_ssl = _check_ssl()
 
         self._LOGLEVELS = dict([
             (getattr(loglevels, 'LOG_%s' % x), getattr(logging, x)) 
@@ -623,7 +637,7 @@ class configmanager(object):
             if opt in ('log_level',):
                 p.set('options', opt, loglevelnames.get(self.options[opt], self.options[opt]))
             elif opt == 'log_handler':
-                p.set('options', opt, ','.join(deduplicate_loggers(self.options[opt])))
+                p.set('options', opt, ','.join(_deduplicate_loggers(self.options[opt])))
             else:
                 p.set('options', opt, self.options[opt])
 
@@ -686,18 +700,4 @@ class configmanager(object):
 
 config = configmanager()
 
-def deduplicate_loggers(loggers):
-    """ Avoid saving multiple logging levels for the same loggers to a save
-    file, that just takes space and the list can potentially grow unbounded
-    if for some odd reason people use :option`odoo.py --save`` all the time.
-    """
-    # dict(iterable) -> the last item of iterable for any given key wins,
-    # which is what we want and expect. Output order should not matter as
-    # there are no duplicates within the output sequence
-    return (
-        '{}:{}'.format(logger, level)
-        for logger, level in dict(it.split(':') for it in loggers).iteritems()
-    )
-
-
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