“ssl module in Python is not available” when installing package with pip3

Question

I\'ve install Python 3.4 and Python 3.6 on my local machine successfully, but am unable to install packages with pip3.

When I execute pip3 install

Answer 1

The python documentation is actually very clear, and following the instructions did the job whereas other answers I found here were not fixing this issue.

1. first, install python 3.x.x from source using, for example with version 3.6.2 https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.6.2/Python-3.6.2.tar.xz

2. make sure you have openssl installed by running brew install openssl

3. unzip it and move to the python directory: tar xvzf Python-3.6.2.tar.xz && cd Python-3.6.2

4. then if the python version is < 3.7, run

CPPFLAGS="-I$(brew --prefix openssl)/include" \ LDFLAGS="-L$(brew --prefix openssl)/lib" \ ./configure --with-pydebug 5. finallly, run make -s -j2 (-s is the silent flag, -j2 tells your machine to use 2 jobs)