How do I configure multiple Ubuntu Python installations to avoid App Engine's SSL error?
- by Linc
I have Karmic Koala which has Python 2.6 installed by default.
However I can't run any Python App Engine projects because they require Python 2.5 and python ssl.
To install ssl I installed python2.5-dev first while following some instructions I found elsewhere.
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
sudo apt-get install python2.5-dev
sudo easy_install-2.5 pyopenssl
However, I am afraid this is not good for my Ubuntu installation since Ubuntu expects to see version 2.6 of Python when you type 'python' on the command line. Instead, it says '2.5.5'.
I tried to revert to the original default version of Python by doing this:
sudo apt-get remove python2.5-dev
But that didn't seem to do anything either - when I type 'python' on the command line it still say 2.5.5.
And App Engine still doesn't work after all this. I continue to get an SSL-related error whenever I try to run my Python app:
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'HTTPSHandler'
UPDATE: Just checked whether SSL actually installed as a result of those commands by typing this:
$ python2.5
Python 2.5.5 (r255:77872, Apr 29 2010, 23:59:20)
[GCC 4.4.1] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import ssl
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named ssl
>>>
As you can see, SSL is still not installed, which explains the continuing App Engine error.
If anyone knows how I can dig myself out of this hole, I would appreciate it.
