“ERROR:root:code for hash md5 was not found” when using any hg mercurial commands

Question

When trying to use any hg Mercurial commands on the console, I keep getting this error. I installed Python using Homebrew and I am running Mac OS Catalina v. 1

Answer 1

Managed to fix this by first unlinking openssl

brew unlink openssl

And then reinstalling python

brew reinstall python@2

I also noticed that when running 'brew doctor' there was a warning related to an openssl folder found in /usr/local/include/node/. I deleted this folder before running the above commands (not sure if related)