pip does not work anymore

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On Sunday, November 22, 2015 at 11:59:13 PM UTC-8, 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?
> 
> -- 
> Cecil Westerhof
> Senior Software Engineer
> LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof

SSL2 *should* be disabled.  It was deprecated nearly 20 years ago, replaced by SSL3, and even THAT has been deprecated.  SSL2 is incredibly insecure.