Python AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'SSL_ST_INIT'

Question

A Python script of mine is failing with:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File \"./inspect_sheet.py\", line 21, in 
    main()
  File \"./i         


        

Answer 1

Update your pyopenssl module:

$ sudo pip install -U pyopenssl

Answer 2

My problem was caused by the version of Python openssl that was in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/.

dpkg -l | grep openssl showed:

ii  python-openssl                                0.15.1-2build1                               all          Python 2 wrapper around the OpenSSL library

I removed it using sudo apt-get remove python-openssl. I then ran the following to install the distribution version of pip.

curl -o ./get-pip.py https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
sudo python2 ./get-pip.py

pip --version now displays:

pip 18.0 from /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip (python 2.7)

I was then able to perform the necessary pip install I was trying to complete.

Answer 3

I saw the AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'SSL_ST_INIT' error too.

Doing

sudo pip install pyOpenSSL==16.2.0

resolved it for me.

Answer 4

My solution was a lot more simplistic after these other solutions not working for me. Anything I tried to install/uninstall via pip returned the same error and stacktrace.

I ended up trying to update pip via pip3 and it worked flawlessly:

pip3 install --upgrade pip

I went back to using pip and everything worked correctly. I did notice that it was referencing Python 3.6 when running the pip commands though.

# pip install pyopenssl`enter code here`
Requirement already satisfied: pyopenssl in /usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages (18.0.0)

<snipped>

Requirement already satisfied: pycparser in /usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages (from cffi!=1.11.3,>=1.7->cryptography>=2.2.1->pyopenssl) (2.19)

Answer 5

In my case, It was throwing the same error for uninstalling and upgrading. I couldn't uninstall or upgrade.

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'SSL_ST_INIT'

Following worked for me.

# rm -rf /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/OpenSSL/
# rm -rf /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyOpenSSL-16.1.0.dist-info
# rm -rf /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyOpenSSL-18.0.0-py2.7.egg
# pip2.7 install pyopenssl
Collecting pyopenssl
Downloading 
.
.
100% |████████████████████████████████| 61kB 5.8MB/s 
Collecting cryptography>=2.2.1 (from pyopenssl)
.
.
Installing collected packages: cryptography, pyopenssl
Found existing installation: cryptography 1.7.2
Uninstalling cryptography-1.7.2:
  Successfully uninstalled cryptography-1.7.2
Successfully installed cryptography-2.2.2 pyopenssl-18.0.0

WARNING: Try this only if upgrading(sudo pip install pyOpenSSL==16.2.0) or uninstalling(pip uninstall pyopenssl) doesn't help

Answer 6

I had the same issue and as pip wasn't working anymore I had to do his job manually:

wget https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/40/d0/8efd61531f338a89b4efa48fcf1972d870d2b67a7aea9dcf70783c8464dc/pyOpenSSL-19.0.0.tar.gz
tar -xzvf pyOpenSSL-19.0.0.tar.gz
cd pyOpenSSL-19.0.0
sudo python setup.py install

After that everything worked as expected.