ImportError: cannot import name HTTPSHandler using PIP

Question

Facing an HTTPSHandler error while installing python packages using pip, following is the stack trace,

--------desktop:~$ pip install Django==1.3
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Answer 1

Another symptom of this problem for me was if I went into the python console of my virtualenv and did import ssl it would error out. Turns out my virtualenv wasn't using the brew version of python, just the default install on my machine. No clue why the default install suddenly stopped working, but here's how I fixed it the problem:

• rmvirtualenv myvirtualenv
• brew update
• brew reinstall python
• mkvirtualenv -p /usr/local/Cellar/python/whatever_version_number/bin/python myvirtualenv