I have been trying to run this simple code snippet to check my installation of Wolfram Alpha on Python.
This is the code I have been trying to run:
import ssl
import wolframalpha
app_id = "*****************"
client = wolframalpha.Client(app_id)
my_input = input("Question: ")
res = client.query(my_input)
answer = next(res.results).text
print(answer)
This is the error I have been facing
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\MARIA\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\urllib\request.py", line 1318, in do_open
encode_chunked=req.has_header('Transfer-encoding'))
File "C:\Users\MARIA\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\http\client.py", line 1239, in request
self._send_request(method, url, body, headers, encode_chunked)
File "C:\Users\MARIA\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\http\client.py", line 1285, in _send_request
self.endheaders(body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked)
File "C:\Users\MARIA\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\http\client.py", line 1234, in endheaders
self._send_output(message_body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked)
File "C:\Users\MARIA\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\http\client.py", line 1026, in _send_output
self.send(msg)
File "C:\Users\MARIA\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\http\client.py", line 964, in send
self.connect()
File "C:\Users\MARIA\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\http\client.py", line 1400, in connect
server_hostname=server_hostname)
File "C:\Users\MARIA\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\ssl.py", line 407, in wrap_socket
_context=self, _session=session)
File "C:\Users\MARIA\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\ssl.py", line 817, in __init__
self.do_handshake()
File "C:\Users\MARIA\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\ssl.py", line 1077, in do_handshake
self._sslobj.do_handshake()
File "C:\Users\MARIA\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\ssl.py", line 689, in do_handshake
self._sslobj.do_handshake()
ssl.SSLError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:847)
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\MARIA\TEST_walpha.py", line 6, in <module>
res = client.query(my_input)
File "C:\Users\MARIA\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\wolframalpha\__init__.py", line 53, in query
resp = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
File "C:\Users\MARIA\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\urllib\request.py", line 223, in urlopen
return opener.open(url, data, timeout)
File "C:\Users\MARIA\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\urllib\request.py", line 526, in open
response = self._open(req, data)
File "C:\Users\MARIA\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\urllib\request.py", line 544, in _open
'_open', req)
File "C:\Users\MARIA\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\urllib\request.py", line 504, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "C:\Users\MARIA\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\urllib\request.py", line 1361, in https_open
context=self._context, check_hostname=self._check_hostname)
File "C:\Users\MARIA\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\urllib\request.py", line 1320, in do_open
raise URLError(err)
urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:847)>
Now I consulted this post, but there was no clear answer provide, and importing the SSL library did not solve my problem.
You can try disabling certificate verification globally by doing something like this:
ssl._create_default_https_context = ssl._create_unverified_context