httplib.HTTPSConnection returns AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'HTTPSConnection'

[billyziege]

I apologize if this is just my machine/a repeat issue, after downloading pip 1.3.1 (I just retried this), I get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/mnt/iscsi_speed/devel/pipeline/all_nodes_v4_env/bin/pip", line 8, in
load_entry_point('pip==1.3.1', 'console_scripts', 'pip')()
File "/mnt/iscsi_speed/devel/pipeline/all_nodes_v4_env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 318, in load_entry_point
File "/mnt/iscsi_speed/devel/pipeline/all_nodes_v4_env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 2221, in load_entry_point
File "/mnt/iscsi_speed/devel/pipeline/all_nodes_v4_env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 1954, in load
File "/mnt/iscsi_speed/devel/pipeline/all_nodes_v4_env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.3.1-py2.7.egg/pip/init.py", line 11, in
from pip.vcs import git, mercurial, subversion, bazaar # noqa
File "/mnt/iscsi_speed/devel/pipeline/all_nodes_v4_env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.3.1-py2.7.egg/pip/vcs/mercurial.py", line 9, in
from pip.download import path_to_url2
File "/mnt/iscsi_speed/devel/pipeline/all_nodes_v4_env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.3.1-py2.7.egg/pip/download.py", line 72, in
class VerifiedHTTPSConnection(httplib.HTTPSConnection):
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'HTTPSConnection'

I thought I read somewhere that httplib is replace by http.client, but I can no longer find the link. BTW, pip 1.2.1 works fine, so this seems to have been introduced.

[qwcode]

python 2.7 should have httplib.HTTPSConnection http://docs.python.org/2/library/httplib.html#httplib.HTTPSConnection)

can you run these 2 things and paste the results:

[...]/all_nodes_v4_env/bin/python -c "import sys; print sys.version_info"
[...]all_nodes_v4_env/bin/python -c "import httplib; print dir(httplib)"

[qwcode]

internally, pip handles the difference between py2 and py3 using a backwardcompat package that performs like so:

if sys.version_info >= (3,):
    import http.client as httplib
else:
    import httplib

[Sawboo]

If the 'openssl-devel' package is missing from your system before you compiled python, httplib won't have HTTPSconnection.

Use yum to install openssl-devel, then recompile python.

[qwcode]

ok, thanks for posting the solution @Sawboo . closing this as a pip issue for now.
if this were to come up a lot, we could consider an import error to the user explaining what to do.

[gclsoft]

ptyhon > 3.5 work for me