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

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