RuntimeError: Can't connect to HTTPS URL because the SSL module is not available.

[OdinsHat]

This error occurs on OSX 10.10.4 (Yosemite) using Python 2.7.7

The full stack trace is:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./digital_ocean.py", line 440, in <module>
    DigitalOceanInventory()
  File "./digital_ocean.py", line 225, in __init__
    self.load_from_digital_ocean('droplets')
  File "./digital_ocean.py", line 322, in load_from_digital_ocean
    self.data['droplets'] = self.manager.all_active_droplets()
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/dopy/manager.py", line 30, in all_active_droplets
    json = self.request('/droplets/')
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/dopy/manager.py", line 424, in request
    resp = self.request_v2(url, params=params, headers=headers, method=method)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/dopy/manager.py", line 475, in request_v2
    raise RuntimeError(e)
RuntimeError: Can't connect to HTTPS URL because the SSL module is not available.

[zbal]

Are you sure this is not an error of requests itself or your system not having the ssl library available? Can you run the following without exception being thrown?

python -c "import requests; a = requests.get('https://github.com'); print len(a.text);"