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OSX-builds: Deprecated OpenSSL library inside python@2 and python3.5 #70

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I got a very well known error this days, concerning OSX and openssl which is:

URLError: <urlopen error [SSL: TLSV1_ALERT_PROTOCOL_VERSION] tlsv1 alert protocol version (_ssl.c:661)>

see from urllib2 in python@2 and urllib in python3.5.
After searching a lot I found out that this is because of deprecated version of open-ssl used by python: "OpenSSL 0.9.8zh 14 Jan 2016"
[You can see that by running {python} -c "from __future__ import print_function; import ssl; print(ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION)" - see from urllib2 in python@2 and urllib in see]

Instead, a version >= 1.0.2 is needed to avoid the error and although the system has it (as you can see when brew installing openssl), it is not the one executed from path. Even if you change the path and append the location of the desired binary in front, this is not a workaround for python as the correct libraries are not linked. An optional workaround is to brew install {python} --with-brewed-openssl and afterwards replace the one in path marked by {python} tagger. For this workaround you can see here.

I am stuck and I don't know how to proceed because of aliases of python version and mysticism of where is the python executable is and if and how it can be replaced by a new one (if there are predependencies installed that are not the ones installed by user). That's why I am opening an issue and suggesting adding an installation of python in osx with the current version of openssl in your package, driven by the fact that this is not a problem of the project that I am testing and a normal user would be able to solve any dependency issue on his machine.

Thanks in advance for your awesome package and I hope the problem was made clear :)

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