Psycopg2 Python SSL Support is not compiled in

Question

I am trying to connect to my postgres database using psycopg2 with sslmode=\'required\' param; however, I get the following error

psycopg2.OperationalError:          


        

Answer 1

As I can not comment:
Adding to Brideau's answer that this only worked for me after changing my version of Postgres.

brew uninstall postgres
brew update
brew install postgres --with-openssl

Then run the code provided by Brideau and it should work.