pip does not work anymore

[Cecil Westerhof]

On Monday 23 Nov 2015 08:48 CET, Cecil Westerhof wrote:

> 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?

Can I make pip work with ssl3?

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Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof