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

I was seeing similar python stack dump on the console of my Ubuntu 16.04 VM when I tried ssh into the VM.

SSL_ST_INIT = _lib.SSL_ST_INIT
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'SSL_ST_INIT'

pip reported that pyopenssl was not installed.

I had to do this instead:

sudo apt install --reinstall python-openssl