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

This is an older post, so I'm answering to hopefully help someone in late 2019... my problem had to do with Python 2 vs 3. I'm using Python 3 exclusively; no more legacy Python. But my OS (eg, Ubuntu 16.04) still has Python 2.7 installed. Thus when running global pip by default (eg, not in a virtualenv), I was calling the Python 2 version of pip.

For me, I used the following to fix this issue.

Uninstall docker-compose:

sudo pip3 uninstall docker-compose  
sudo pip uninstall docker-compose

Reinstall docker-compose for my version of Python:

sudo pip3 install docker-compose