SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED error with python3 on macOS 10.15

Question

/usr/bin/python3 from Xcode/CLT on macOS 10.15 (DB6/PB5 at the moment, with Xcode 11 beta 6) fails with SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED for all HTTPS re

Answer 1

i had an issue with 'abort 6' when importing 'requests' package after updating to catalina. while searching for a solution, i was lead to this page. unfortunately none of the above worked for me, however...

updating to python 3.8 manually from python.org seemed to solve this issue very easily for me. i had to reinstall all my packages (w/ pip3) as i came across errors, but that wasn't so bad.

i don't see any of my projects having an issue with python3.8 so far (been using 3.7 for a while)

hope this helps someone! thanks for all the additional suggestions and efforts!