Usually, (first time) when working with Python from a separated environment (created by virtualenv, or something like that) we could be hit by an error due to ssl importing failure. This is how the error looks like:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/some/path/lib/python2.6/ssl.py", line 60, in <module>
import _ssl # if we can't import it, let the error propagate
ImportError: No module named _ssl
Okay. The reason is because Python cannot find the ssl library (in Python 2.6 and later, it doesn't require the python-ssl installed anymore.) Here is the steps we can do:
1a. Ensure of having OpenSSL installed in the common environment (/usr/lib/, /usr/local/lib,..). In Redhat distros, the packages are openssl, openssl-devel
OR
1b. Download and install the OpenSSL from source into your prefer location
2. Get into your Python source directory, edit the file ./Modules/Setup (some places written that is the Setup.dist but It won't work to me). Uncomment some lines like below:
_socket socketmodule.c
# Socket module helper for SSL support; you must comment out the other
# socket line above, and possibly edit the SSL variable:
#SSL=/usr/local/ssl
_ssl _ssl.c \
-DUSE_SSL -I$(SSL)/include -I$(SSL)/include/openssl \
-L$(SSL)/lib -lssl -lcrypto
3. Rebuild the Python:
$ make install
4. Confirm that the error won't show again.
Note: Dealing with older Python could be more tricky, but it requires the python-ssl installed additionally
B?n ti?ng Vi?t: http://django.vn/blog/xu-ly-loi-import-ssl-trong-python