pip does not work anymore

[Laura Creighton]

In a message of Mon, 23 Nov 2015 08:48:54 +0100, Cecil Westerhof writes:
>When I try to install something with pip2 I get:
>    Traceback (most recent call last):
>      File "/usr/bin/pip2", line 9, in <module>
>        load_entry_point('pip==7.1.2', 'console_scripts', 'pip2')()
>      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 558, in load_entry_point
>        return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
>      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2682, in load_entry_point
>        return ep.load()
>      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2355, in load
>        return self.resolve()
>      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2361, in resolve
>        module = __import__(self.module_name, fromlist=['__name__'], level=0)
>      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/__init__.py", line 15, in <module>
>        from pip.vcs import git, mercurial, subversion, bazaar  # noqa
>      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/vcs/subversion.py", line 9, in <module>
>        from pip.index import Link
>      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/index.py", line 30, in <module>
>        from pip.wheel import Wheel, wheel_ext
>      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/wheel.py", line 35, in <module>
>        from pip._vendor.distlib.scripts import ScriptMaker
>      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/distlib/scripts.py", line 14, in <module>
>        from .compat import sysconfig, detect_encoding, ZipFile
>      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/distlib/compat.py", line 31, in <module>
>        from urllib2 import (Request, urlopen, URLError, HTTPError,
>    ImportError: cannot import name HTTPSHandler
>
>With pip3 I get the same problem.
>
>It looks like openSUSE has done an upgrade in which it disabled ssl2.
>How can I get pip2/3 working again?
>
>-- 
>Cecil Westerhof
>Senior Software Engineer
>LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof
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Reading https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/488962-OpenSuse-python-amp-openssl
seems to indicatew that you are supposed to use python-pip and not pip
for OpenSuse, but I don't have one, so that is just my interpretation.

Laura