Ansible attribute HTTPSHandler failure

Published by exdone

Posted on August 08, 2018

File \”/tmp/ansible_PzNRht/ansible_modlib.zip/ansible/module_utils/urls.py\”, line 340, in <module>\r\nAttributeError: ‘module’ object has no attribute ‘HTTPSHandler’\r\n”, “msg”: “MODULE FAILURE”, “r

This is due to Python being unable to import the ssl module. To see the actual error, you will need to log into the server and try to import ssl .

Python<version>

import ssl

File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/ssl.py”, line 60, in <module>
import _ssl # if we can’t import it, let the error propagate
ImportError: No module named _ssl

in this case can refer to https://www.openkb.org/importerror-no-module-named-_ssl/  

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