SSL error with python requests

Quick fix to an ssl error was encountered with python requests on ubuntu 14.04.

Error message

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/api.py", line 55, in get
    return request('get', url, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/api.py", line 44, in request
    return session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 455, in request
    resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 558, in send
    r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 385, in send
    raise SSLError(e)
requests.exceptions.SSLError: [Errno 1] _ssl.c:510: error:14077438:SSL 
routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:tlsv1 alert internal error

Solution

$ sudo apt-get install libffi-dev
$ pip install pyOpenSSL ndg-httpsclient pyasn1

References

python ssl