pip install bs4 giving _socketobject error

Question

I am trying to install BeautifulSoup4 using the command pip install BeautifulSoup4, as per the bs documentation here:

https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/#Download

I am using Mac OS X 10.7.5, and python 2.7.12

When I run the command in Terminal I get the error:

AttributeError: '_socketobject' object has no attribute 'set_tlsext_host_name'

Can anyone suggest what I'm doing wrong? Thanks in advance.

EDIT: In light of comments I have tried to run sudo pip install pyopenssl however I get the same 'socketobject' error.

possible duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29849892/error-installing-any-module-using-pip-but-easy-install-works — saurabh baid, Oct 08 '16 at 18:09
@saurabhbaid the other OP's question is on Ubuntu, and the solution involves apt-get, which I understand you can't use on a mac (correct me if I'm wrong?) — Preston, Oct 08 '16 at 18:12
I am no mac user but I dont it doesn't look like your issue is specific to MAC, It looks like some of the dependent libraries like libffi-dev or PyOpenSSL are missing on your machine. — saurabh baid, Oct 08 '16 at 18:17
Are you using the Apple-installed version of Python? That could be your problem. — sytech, Oct 13 '16 at 16:05
As an alternative to anaconda, have you tried using homebrew? and then ` brew install openssl` ? — , Oct 14 '16 at 19:04

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 13 '16 at 14:18

From what I understand, the pyopenssl package version installed system-wide is not up-to-date. Upgrade it:

sudo pip install --upgrade pyopenssl

Or, remove it and install the latest in your virtual environment:

$ sudo pip uninstall pyopenssl
$ # activate virtual environment
(myvirtualenv) $ pip install --upgrade pyopenssl

Prakhar Agarwal · Answer 2 · 2016-10-18T19:16:51.133

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"That happend because your OS has old pyOpenSSL library which is does not an accept attribute 'set_tlsext_host_name'. To fix this, you need to add dependence pyOpenSSL >= 0.13.

$ brew purge python-openssl
$ brew install libffi-dev
$ brew install pyOpenSSL

Let me know if this is unclear or if it doesn't work for you.

edited Oct 18 '16 at 19:16

answered Oct 18 '16 at 05:14

Prakhar Agarwal

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Thanks, but can i run apt-get on a mac? – Preston Oct 18 '16 at 07:28

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 14 '16 at 11:47

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Alternatively, you can install Anaconda Python from: https://www.continuum.io/downloads

This installation includes BS out of the box as most of the common libraries you will use. Plus it makes library installation quite easy.

answered Oct 14 '16 at 11:47

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 17 '16 at 03:46

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I'm using OS X 10.12 and python 2.7.10

sudo easy_install BeautifulSoup4
sudo easy_install pyopenssl

They all worked fine.

answered Oct 17 '16 at 03:46

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:19

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See https://stackoverflow.com/a/31576259/3579910:

Try:

sudo apt-get purge python-openssl
sudo apt-get install libffi-dev
sudo pip install pyopenssl

Apparently you can't vote duplicate if there is an open bounty.

Background:

That happend because Ubuntu 12.04 (that is my server's OS) has old pyOpenSSL library which not accept attribute 'set_tlsext_host_name'. For fix that, you need to add dependence pyOpenSSL >= 0.13. On Ubuntu for update pyOpenSSL use pip, you also need to install libffi-dev and remove python-openssl by apt.

Source

On Mac, you can get homebrew to replace the apt-get calls: follow the instructions for installing homebrew.

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answered Oct 17 '16 at 20:47

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Any idea what the brew equivalent of purge is? @TemporalWolf – Preston Oct 21 '16 at 11:47
@tompreston I would check out this [SO answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/7333289/3579910) – TemporalWolf Oct 21 '16 at 16:49

pip install bs4 giving _socketobject error

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