Requests (Caused by SSLError(“Can't connect to

Question

Using requests in Python3 Windows via Pycharm, and receiving SSL Module Not Available Error

I've spent hours trying to figure out what could be causing this. I've reinstalled Anaconda, and I am completely stuck. When running the following

def Earlybird(daycount):
    url = 'https://msft.com'
    response = requests.get(url)
    print(response)
Earlybird()

I receive the error

requests.exceptions.SSLError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='msft.com', 
port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: / (Caused by SSLError("Can't 
connect to HTTPS URL because the SSL module is not available."))

I have no idea what could be causing this. As Anaconda is a recent install, I would assume everything would be up-to-date, so I'm unsure if this is pointing to the wrong SSL ? I am a bit new to python, so thanks for your patience. -

Answer 1

Note: This issue was fixed on windows 10 I was facing same issue with virtual environment on windows 10. Issue was solved with running CMD as administrator and creating new virtual environment.

• Run cmd as administrator
• create virtual environment (virtualenv .venv )
• activate virtual environment .venv\Scripts\activate
• Pip install requests

Answer 2

Don't know if this has been solved yet but I was getting similar problems with Anaconda python 3.7.3 and Idle on Windows 10. Fixed it by adding:

<path>\Anaconda3
<path>\Anaconda3\scripts
<path>\Anaconda3\Library\bin

to the PATH variable.

Answer 3

I got it solved by installing OpenSSL according to the following recomendation: https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/8046#issuecomment-450515815

Corresponding ticket in the conda repo: https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/8046

Update: the problem (in PyCharm) should be solved in 2019.1 version (Early Access Preview build is already available https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/nextversion/).

Answer 4

I don't have Anaconda so the steps I took are:

• brew uninstall python3
• brew install python3
  • got an error message stating,Your Xcode (10.2) is too outdated. Please update to Xcode 11.3 (or delete it). Xcode can be updated from the App Store.**So, I deleted Xcode since no update would show, then I reinstalled it.
  • ran xcode-select --install after. If you don't.. you'll get an error: The following formula python cannot be installed as binary package and must be built from source. Install the Command Line Tools: xcode-select --install
• ran brew install python3 and it completed successfully.

Used this script just to see if it works

import requests
r = requests.get('https://www.office.com')
print(r)

Ran the script python3 and python3.7 and output was <Response [200]> instead of SSLError.

Answer 5

I've installed the binaries from here: https://slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html This site is mentioned on the official OpenSSL wiki. It solved my problem

Answer 6

Solved by doing the following in my windows 10:

mklink "C:\Users\hal\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\DLLs\libssl-1_1-x64.dll" "C:\Users\hal\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\Library\bin\libssl-1_1-x64.dll"

mklink "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\DLLs\libcrypto-1_1-x64.dll" "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\Library\bin\libcrypto-1_1-x64.dll"