“ImportError: No module named _ssl” with dev_appserver.py from Google App Engine

Question

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Background

\"In the Python runtime, we\'ve added support for the Python SSL Library, so you can now open secure connections to remote servic

Answer 1

I had to use a slightly different approach to get this working in CircleCI (unsure what peculiarity about their venv config caused this):

appengine_config.py

import os

if os.environ.get('SERVER_SOFTWARE', '').startswith('Development'):
    import imp
    import os.path
    import inspect
    from google.appengine.tools.devappserver2.python import sandbox

    sandbox._WHITE_LIST_C_MODULES += ['_ssl', '_socket']
    # Use the system socket.

    real_os_src_path = os.path.realpath(inspect.getsourcefile(os))
    psocket = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(real_os_src_path), 'socket.py')
    imp.load_source('socket', psocket)