AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'HTTPSConnection'

[Ronen Moldovan]

After failing to raise explorer on Python 2.4, I've installed Python 2.7 with the latest Qt, PyQt and bazaar versions (on CentOS).

Now I'm getting the following exception:

bzr: ERROR: exceptions.AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'HTTPSConnection'

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 912, in exception_to_return_code
    return the_callable(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 1112, in run_bzr
    ret = run(*run_argv)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 690, in run_argv_aliases
    return self.run(**all_cmd_args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 705, in run
    return self._operation.run_simple(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bzrlib/cleanup.py", line 135, in run_simple
    self.cleanups, self.func, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bzrlib/cleanup.py", line 165, in _do_with_cleanups
    result = func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/ronenm/.bazaar/plugins/explorer/lib/commands.py", line 161, in run
    window = explorer.QExplorerMainWindow(location_list=location_list,
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bzrlib/lazy_import.py", line 106, in __getattribute__
    obj = _replace()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bzrlib/lazy_import.py", line 89, in _replace
    obj = factory(self, scope, name)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bzrlib/lazy_import.py", line 192, in _import
    module = __import__(module_python_path, scope, scope, [member])
  File "/home/ronenm/.bazaar/plugins/explorer/lib/explorer.py", line 31, in <module>
    from bzrlib.plugins.explorer.lib import (
  File "/home/ronenm/.bazaar/plugins/explorer/lib/hosted_url_resolver.py", line 21, in <module>
    from bzrlib.plugins.launchpad.lp_registration import (
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/launchpad/lp_registration.py", line 30, in <module>
    from bzrlib.transport.http import _urllib2_wrappers
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bzrlib/transport/http/_urllib2_wrappers.py", line 304, in <module>
    class HTTPSConnection(AbstractHTTPConnection, httplib.HTTPSConnection):
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'HTTPSConnection'

bzr 2.2.1 on python 2.7.0 (Linux-2.6.18-164.el5PAE-i686-with-redhat-5.4-Final)
arguments: ['/usr/local/bin/bzr', 'explorer']
encoding: 'UTF-8', fsenc: 'UTF-8', lang: 'en_US.UTF-8'
plugins:
  bash_completion /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/bash_completion [2.2.1]
  explorer /home/ronenm/.bazaar/plugins/explorer [1.1.1]
  launchpad /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/launchpad [2.2.1]
  netrc_credential_store /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/netrc_credential_store [2.2.1]
  news_merge /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/news_merge [2.2.1]
  qbzr /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/qbzr [0.19.2]

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    bug in Bazaar. You can help us fix it by filing a bug report at
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Exit 4

[Vincent Ladeuil (vila)]

Right, this should be fixed in bzr, but I note that's it's a dupe and the root cause is, AFAIK, a custom python which doesn't include the ssl module (standard for python >= 2.6) which is a *bad* thing.

[Ronen Moldovan (ronen-moldovan)]

Please note that I downloaded official Python 2.7 release and compiled it with all default settings.

Is it possible that 2.7 does not include the ssl module? I'll try to download it seperately.

[Vincent Ladeuil (vila)]

Ouch. This is worth investigating then, but it would be really surprising that ssl is not included in python2.7... I strongly recommend double-checking the configure/compilation process. I seem to remember that some modules need to be nudged a bit... including the ssl one (sorry for being so vague, my last experiment was in the 2.6beta era).