AttributeError: '_socketobject' object has no attribute 'set_tlsext_host_name'

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00:00 Question
01:20 Accepted answer (Score 14)
01:34 Answer 2 (Score 3)
01:53 Answer 3 (Score 2)
02:06 Thank you

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3157...

Question links:
https://urllib3.readthedocs.org/en/lates...
[InsecurePlatformWarning: A true SSLContext object is not available. This prevents urllib3 from configuring SSL appropriately]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2913...

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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 14

The fix for me was the following:

sudo apt-get purge python-openssl
sudo pip install pyopenssl

ANSWER 2

Score 3

This was able to get the python working on Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS for me.

sudo apt-get install python-dev python-pip build-essential libffi-dev
sudo -H pip install --upgrade pip setuptools && sudo -H pip install --upgrade pyopenssl

ANSWER 3

Score 2

On RedHat:

sudo yum remove pyOpenSSL
sudo pip install pyopenssl