How to install Python ssl module on Windows?

Question

The Google App Engine Launcher tells me:

WARNING appengine_rpc.py:399 ssl module not found. Without the ssl module, the identity of the remote host canno

Answer 1

Grab the openssl and libgw32c packages from the gnuwin32 project (download the "Developer files"!) and extract them where you installed gnuwin32 - or if you don't have gnuwin32 tools yet, you can extract it anywhere (e.g. "C:\Program Files\gnuwin32"). Enter the gnuwin32 directory in the "setup.py" file (replace "C:\Utils\GnuWin32" in line 154).

Then you can build the ssl module without problems. I tested it myself, using GCC "4.3.2-tdm-2 mingw32" and with the command line setup.py build -cmingw32 (-cmingw32 forces MinGW as I also have Microsoft's compiler installed). Execute setup.py install after the successful build to install ssl.