How to make python pick up my new-and-shiny openssl shared object

[Fetchinson .]

The highest version of openssl available on my system is 1.0.0 which
is not good enough for pip these days (or github for that matter). So
I've installed 1.1.0 to a custom location /home/fetch/opt. But if I do

import ssl
ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION

it still shows me that it is using the system default 1.0.0. How do I
tell python to use /home/fetch/opt for the ssl module? Note that I
have /home/fetch/opt as the first entry in LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Also, I
know for a fact that I don't need to recompile python for this so
please don't suggest "just recompile python with the new openssl
library" as the solution :)

By the way my python is 2.7.3.

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