ImportError No module named ssl

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Ubuntu Maverick w Python 2 7   I can t figure out what to do to resolve the following import error    gt  gt  gt  import ssl Traceback  most recent call last     File   lt stdin gt    line 1  in  lt module gt    File   usr local lib python2 7 ssl py   line 60  in  lt module gt     import  ssl               if we can t import it  let the error propagate ImportError  No module named  ssl   UPDATE  I recompiled the source  I was unable to figure out how to add the --with-ssl option the answers below mention  instead I got this to work by editing the lines regarding SSL in  Modules Setup dist

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If you built Python from source  this is just a matter of dependencies  since you miss OpenSSL lib installed  python silently fails installing the  ssl module  You can see it in the final report of the make command   Python build finished  but the necessary bits to build these modules were not found   bsddb              sqlite3            ssl  tkinter           bsddb185           dbm dl                 gdbm               imageop sunaudiodev To find the necessary bits  look in setup py in detect modules   for the module s name    Installing OpenSSL lib in any of the standard lib paths   usr lib   usr local lib     should do the trick  Anyway this is how I did  -

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On Solaris 11  I had to modify setup py to include  opt csw include openssl in the SSL include search path    Uwe

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I had exactly the same problem  I fixed it without rebuilding python  as follows   Find another server with the same architecture  i386 or x86 64  and the same python version  example  2 7 5   Yes  this is the hard part  You can try installing python from sources into another server if you can t find any server with the same python version   In this another server  check if import ssl works  It should work   If it works  then try to find the  ssl lilbrary as follows   root myserver   find   -iname  ssl so  usr local python27 lib python2 7 lib-dynload  ssl so   Copy this file into the original server  Use the same destination folder   usr local python27 lib python2 7 lib-dynload   Double check owner and permissions   root myserver   chown root root  ssl so  root myserver   chmod 755  ssl so   Now you should be able to import ssl    This worked for me in a CentOS 6 3 x86 64 environment with python 2 7 3  Also I had python 2 6 6 installed  but with ssl working fine

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Did you build the Python from source  If so  you need the --with-ssl option while building

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Since --with-ssl is not recognized anymore I just installed the libssl-dev  For debian based systems  sudo apt-get install libssl-dev   For CentOS and RHEL sudo yum install openssl-devel  To restart the make first clean up by  make clean  Then start again and execute the following commands one after the other    configure make make test make install  For further information on OpenSSL visit the Ubuntu Help Page on OpenSSL

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I am writing this solution for those who are still facing such issue and cant find the solution  in my case  I am using  shared hosting  Cpanel Access  Linux CentOS   I was facing this issue No module named   ssl   I tried for all possible solutions but as you know sometimes things don t work for you and in hosting you don t have access to fully root and run queries  even my hosting provider did for me   but NO GOOD RESULT  so how I solved if you are using shared hosting and you have deployed your Django App using  Setup Python App You only have to downgrade your Python Version  I downgraded from  Python 3 7 3   As Python 3 7 does not have SSL module in it  To Python 3 6 8  through Setup Python App  Hope it will be helpful for someone with the same issue

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Unrelated to the original question  but because this is the first Google result    I hit this on Google AppEngine and had to add   libraries  - name  ssl   version  latest   to app yaml per  https   cloud google com appengine docs python sockets ssl support  Please NOTE  This seems to work upto Python version 2 7 9 but not for 2 7 10 or 2 7 11

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The underscore usually means a C module  i e  DLL   and Python can t find it  Did you build python yourself  If so  you need to include SSL support

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Either install the supplementary packages for python-ssl using your package manager or  recompile Python using -with-ssl  requires OpenSSL headers libs installed

[python] ImportError: No module named _ssl

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