Not able to install Python packages [SSL: TLSV1_ALERT_PROTOCOL_VERSION]

Question

I am trying to install a Python library using pip, getting an SSL error:

~/projects/base  pre-master±  pip install xdict

Collecting xdict
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Answer 1

The answers of installing pip via:

1. curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py |sudo python or
2. curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | python

did not work for me as I kept on getting the error:

Could not fetch URL https://pypi.org/simple/pip/: There was a problem confirming the ssl certificate: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='pypi.org', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /simple/pip/ (Caused by SSLError("Can't connect to HTTPS URL because the SSL module is not available.",)) - skipping
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pip (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for pip

I had to install pip manually via:

1. Go the pip distribution website
2. Download the tar.gz version
3. Unpack the file locally and cd into the directory
4. run python setup.py install