"ssl module in Python is not available"

Question

still advancing in my tutorial to learn python, I was told to do

sudo -H pip install requests

I get the following :

pip is configured with locations that require TLS/SSL, however the ssl module in Python is not available.
Collecting requests
  Could not fetch URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/requests/: There was a problem confirming the ssl certificate: Can't connect to HTTPS URL because the SSL module is not available. - skipping
  Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement requests (from versions: )
No matching distribution found for requests

would someone know what I need to do to fix that once for all ?

thanks so much in advance

Answer 1

I encountered the problem when installing 3.8.11. I tried the above posts but they didn't work.

This is how I finally made it compile:

1) Install openssl 1.1.1g;
2) untar the tarball;
3) enter the source directory;
4) run ./config --prefix=/usr/local/openssl_1.1 --openssldir=/usr/local/openssl_1.1
to install to /usr/local/openssl_1.1.

make & make install.

You can customize the directory.
5)Download python 3.8 source tarball;
6)untar the tarball. Enter the source/Modules;
7) edit the file Setup;
8) find the lines:

SSL=/usr/local/ssl

ssl _ssl.c \
    -DUSE_SSL -I$(SSL)/include -I$(SSL)/include/openssl \
    -L$(SSL)/lib -lssl -lcrypto

change SSL=/usr/local/ssl to SSL=/usr/local/openssl_1.1

9) Switch to the source directory. run

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/python3.8 --with-openssl=/usr/local/openssl_1.1

10) export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/openssl_1.1/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

11) make & make install. If you need sudo, also export LD_LIBRARY_PATH in sudo

Answer 2

This command worked very well for me.

cd Python-3.6.2
./configure --with-ssl
make
sudo make install

Answer 3

Running ./configure with --enable-optimizations did the trick.

Here are the steps that worked for me on a Ubuntu 16.04 LTS box-

1. The lines related to ssl in the Modules/Setup* files are commented

2. cd to the directory where you have the Python tar extracted

   cd /../../../Python-3.7.4/

3. Run configure with optimizations enabled

   ./configure --enable-optimizations

4. Run make and then make install

   make

   make install

Answer 4

I encountered this problem running pip on Powershell on Windows, using the Anaconda distribution. I was running it inside VSCode, but I don't think it makes much difference.

A quick turnaround for me was installing what I needed using the Anaconda prompt, which works fine.

Answer 5

I encountered the same problem in Windows 10.

What I did was:

Step 1: go to https://pypi.python.org/simple/requests and download the latest version (e.g., requests-2.21.0.tar.gz).

Step 2: unzip the downloaded file into a folder (e.g., c:\temp\requests-2.21.0). You can use 7zip for that purpose.

Step 3: pip install c:\temp\requests-2.21.0

Note: pip can also install a local folder.

It worked for me.

Answer 6

I use Linux distros and face the problem since the new installation of Python 3.6. I tried a couple of solution and finally solved the problem. The steps I followed are as below.

On Debian like distros

sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstall libreadline-gplv2-dev ibncursesw5-dev libssl-dev libsqlite3-dev tk-dev libgdbm-dev libc6-dev libbz2-dev

Change the directory to the Python3.6 location

cd /path/to/Python3.6/Module/

In the module directory, open the Setup file with your preferred text editor

vi Setup

Search for SSL and uncomment the related lines.

ssl _ssl.c \
    -DUSE_SSL -I$(SSL)/include -I$(SSL)/include/openssl \
    -L$(SSL)/lib -lssl -lcrypto

Save the file and on the root folder of your Python package, run the following command.

make
sudo make install

And finally, run the pip3 to install your required module(s).