Python 2.7 [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:618)>

Question

I am porting a django project over from RHEL5 to RHEL7 and python 2.5 to 2.7.5 and am having certificate problems. The bit of code I am troubleshooting is a suds Client invocation of a web service WSDL client = Client(_LDAP_URLS[env]) where LDAP_URLS is already defined in the code. I imported it using from suds.client import Client

I think this may be more of a Linux and Python interaction problem between the two versions rather than an issue with the code, but I could be wrong. Here is the full code. (this is django by the way, so this is a view.py file)

from django.conf import settings
from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect, HttpResponse
from django.shortcuts import render_to_response

from suds.client import Client
from suds.wsse import Security
import suds
from gaic.security.sso import BinarySecurityToken
from ud_data_extract import UDDataExtractForm



_LDAP_URLS = {WSDL URLS HARD CODED HERE}

def _get_person(env='production', hid=None, vid=None, token=None, group=None):
    if env not in _LDAP_URLS:
        env = 'production'
    if token:
        client = Client(_SSO_URLS[env])
        try:
            person = client.service.getPersonFromToken(token)
            hid = person['hid']
        except Exception:
            return None
    try:
        client = Client(_LDAP_URLS[env])
    except Exception as e:
        log.error("line 165: %s", e)

    if group:
        grp = client.factory.create('groupDto')
        grp.name = group
        users = client.service.getGroupMembers(grp)
        groups = []
        try:
            group_ = client.service.getGroup(grp)
            gnamere = re.compile(r'cn=([^,]+),')
            for gname in group_.uniqueMembers:
                m = gnamere.match(gname)
                if m:
                    group_name = m.groups(1)[0]
                    groups.append(group_name)
            groups.sort()
        except Exception, e:
            pass  # groups = [str(e)]
        return [users, groups]
    person = client.factory.create('personDto')
    if hid:
        person.hid = hid
    if vid:
        person.vid = vid
    user = None    

The issue in my logging points to around line 165, I took out some code with our company wsdl urls so it may be in the 150s. It's in a try statement.

try:
            client = Client(_LDAP_URLS[env])
        except Exception as e:
            log.error("line 165: %s", e)

I have looked around and this page said that it may be a problem with newer version of python and pointed to this redhat documentation to fix it, but I really don't know what to do with it.

Thanks in advance for the help.