certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate

Question

I am trying to get data from the web using python. I imported urllib.request package for it but while executing, I get error:

certificate verify failed: unab         


        

Answer 1

Paste the following code at the start:

# paste this at the start of code
import ssl 

try:
    _create_unverified_https_context = ssl._create_unverified_context
except AttributeError:
    pass
else:
    ssl._create_default_https_context = _create_unverified_https_context