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

The issue could be there because of different versions of Docker-compose and Docker. First compare the version and upgrade it to make it compatible.

Secondly,you can uninstall the backport package (via pip).

sudo pip uninstall backports.ssl-match-hostname

and then install it again as a ubuntu package.

sudo apt-get install python-backports.ssl-match-hostname