SSLError in Requests when packaging as OS X .app

Question

I\'m developing an application for OS X. The application involves communicating with a server through python-requests, using a secure connection.

I am able to run the p

Answer 1

The previous accepted answer did not work for me - maybe the way requests works has changed.

To resolve this I changed my setup.py options to include the certifi package where the certificate pem file lives:

OPTIONS = {'argv_emulation': True,'packages': ['certifi']}

Then added this to the python requests calls:

is_py2app = hasattr(sys, "frozen")
pem_path = "lib/python2.7/certifi/cacert.pem" if is_py2app else None 

...

requests.get(..., verify=pem_path)

This may be different on other Python versions.