What is a possible cause for [SSL: UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL] in Python Requests library?

Question

The following example GET:

r = requests.get(url, auth=(self.key, \'\'), verify=False)

Fails with the following traceback:

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Answer 1

The solution to this problem turned out to be related to the requests library.

Adding the following to my python library resolved the issue:

pip install requests[security]

(Note this is not an ideal fix for TLS future security)