diff --git a/repos/c2sm/packages/python/package.py b/repos/c2sm/packages/python/package.py
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+from spack.pkg.builtin.python import Python as SpackPython
+
+
+class Python(SpackPython):
+    variant("ssl", default=False, description="Build ssl module")