MacOS Python3 TlS Certificate Verify Failed - Unable to Get Local Issuer Certificate [SOLVED]

After an upgrade to Sonoma and it’s changes to OpenSSL Poetry started having issues with pypi.org.

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❯ poetry install
  Updating dependencies
  Resolving dependencies... (7.8s)

HTTPSConnectionPool(host='pypi.org', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /simple/plotly/ (Caused by SSLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1129)')))
  ❯ python --version
  Python 3.12.1

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❯ pip install flask

Could not fetch URL https://pypi.org/simple/pip/: There was a problem confirming the ssl certificate: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='pypi.org', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /simple/pip/ (Caused by SSLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1000)'))) - skipping

Python can’t find correct OpenSSL library.

In essense we need to make sure Python has OpenSSL in order. Here’s what might help:

If you are using native MacOS Python try running Install Certificates.command

shell

open /Applications/Python\ 3.12/Install\ Certificates.command
pip install --upgrade certifi

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brew uninstall --ignore-dependencies openssl@1.1
env CONFIGURE_OPTS='--enable-optimizations' pyenv install 3.12
brew install openssl@1.1

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brew reinstall ca-certificates openssl
CONFIGURE_OPTS="--with-openssl=$(brew --prefix openssl)" \
CFLAGS="-I$(brew --prefix openssl)/include" LDFLAGS="-L$(brew --prefix openssl)/lib" \
 pyenv install 3.11

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alias pyenv='CFLAGS="-I$(brew --prefix openssl)/include" LDFLAGS="-L$(brew --prefix openssl)/lib" pyenv'

Double check you don’t run any proxy (like proxyman) that might have a broken TLS. I found out that I had REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE pointing to my proxyman proxy certificate. I removed it and it finally worked.

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