ImportError: No module named ssl_match_hostname when importing the docker SDK for Python

Question

In order to use the Docker SDK for Python, I\'m trying to import docker in a Python script, but it\'s resulting in an ImportError with the following tr

Answer 1

I had backports.ssl-match-hostname installed locally, which was preventing it from being installed at the system level. I solved it by

sudo pip uninstall backports.ssl-match-hostname

followed by

sudo pip install --upgrade docker