Why am I getting an error when trying to import ssl in python3 ?
Python 3.7.4 (default, Jul 9 2019, 18:13:23)
[Clang 10.0.1 (clang-1001.0.46.4)] on darwin
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>>> import ssl
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.4/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/ssl.py", line 98, in <module>
import _ssl # if we can't import it, let the error propagate
ImportError: dlopen(/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.4/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/lib-dynload/_ssl.cpython-37m-darwin.so, 2): Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/openssl/lib/libssl.1.0.0.dylib
Referenced from: /usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.4/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/lib-dynload/_ssl.cpython-37m-darwin.so
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I am having a hard time installing packages via pip which seem to be throwing an SSL error.
I had exactly the same problem, which was solved once I upgraded my Python version to 3.7.6 using brew.
brew upgrade python3
This threw a permission denied error, but the update was done nonetheless, after which I was able to import ssl:
Python 3.7.6 (default, Dec 30 2019, 19:38:28)
[Clang 11.0.0 (clang-1100.0.33.16)] on darwin
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>>> import ssl
>>> ssl
<module 'ssl' from '/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.6_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/ssl.py'>
>>>