[PYTHON] The story of when I was addicted to Caused by SSLError ("Can't connect to HTTPS URL because the SSL module is not available.")

Introduction

For web scraping practice I got a sample code and tried scraping I was addicted to the exception, so make a note of the event and the solution.

Event

[Python] Get stock price data by scraping When I executed the script, the error ↓↓ occurred and the process could not proceed. The PC was just after returning to the factory default, so I'm quite impatient.

Script execution result error message

requests.exceptions.SSLError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='***.co.jp', 
port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: / (Caused by SSLError("Can't 
connect to HTTPS URL because the SSL module is not available."))

environment

anaconda 1.9.12 python 3.8.3

Solution

Reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54135206/requests-caused-by-sslerrorcant-connect-to-https-url-because-the-ssl-module

I fixed it by putting the following path in the environment variable.

Environment variable

%USERPROFILE%\Anaconda3
%USERPROFILE%\Anaconda3\scripts
%USERPROFILE%\Anaconda3\Library\bin

Specifically, it looks like this.

in conclusion

Looking back now, even though the python execution environment is anaconda3, I started python from vscode. I wondered if the package installed by anaconda was not referenced. Anyway, I'm glad I solved the problem.