I get this error when running python3 -m pip install ssl. I am using python3.9. I don’t know if I missed a dependency or something. Anyone know what it could mean? Thanks!
Collecting ssl
Using cached ssl-1.16.tar.gz (33 kB)
Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
command: /usr/local/bin/python3 -c 'import io, os, sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-ksq1z266/ssl_4f2df792062c4e55adcde77572817d76/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-ksq1z266/ssl_4f2df792062c4e55adcde77572817d76/setup.py'"'"';f = getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__) if os.path.exists(__file__) else io.StringIO('"'"'from setuptools import setup; setup()'"'"');code = f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base /tmp/pip-pip-egg-info-8pykq_q9
cwd: /tmp/pip-install-ksq1z266/ssl_4f2df792062c4e55adcde77572817d76/
Complete output (6 lines):
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/tmp/pip-install-ksq1z266/ssl_4f2df792062c4e55adcde77572817d76/setup.py", line 33
print 'looking for', f
^
SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print('looking for', f)?
----------------------------------------
WARNING: Discarding https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/83/21/f469c9923235f8c36d5fd5334ed11e2681abad7e0032c5aba964dcaf9bbb/ssl-1.16.tar.gz#sha256=ac21156fee6aee9eb8d765bbb16f5f49492d81ff4b22f7b8fc001d2251120930 (from https://pypi.org/simple/ssl/). Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.
Using cached ssl-1.15.tar.gz (32 kB)
Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
command: /usr/local/bin/python3 -c 'import io, os, sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-ksq1z266/ssl_937ea02f984c47d09515df3b015f1d75/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-ksq1z266/ssl_937ea02f984c47d09515df3b015f1d75/setup.py'"'"';f = getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__) if os.path.exists(__file__) else io.StringIO('"'"'from setuptools import setup; setup()'"'"');code = f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base /tmp/pip-pip-egg-info-bhjdvuy4
cwd: /tmp/pip-install-ksq1z266/ssl_937ea02f984c47d09515df3b015f1d75/
Complete output (6 lines):
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/tmp/pip-install-ksq1z266/ssl_937ea02f984c47d09515df3b015f1d75/setup.py", line 74
print 'looking for', f
^
SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print('looking for', f)?
----------------------------------------
WARNING: Discarding https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/3a/c2/846a19d1572ec6cb8ac438d58a898de8926d32e13f0355cdf4ab00864b5f/ssl-1.15.tar.gz#sha256=1266302ce62c4b60c7ca0e1d3d104ba11d2749e5881d8ac4f006cf9a0446d589 (from https://pypi.org/simple/ssl/). Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement ssl (from versions: 1.15, 1.16)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for ssl
>Solution :
pip install ssl is for python 2, it is already included in python3 so need to to pip install it
you can check this stackoverflow for more details