pip + there was a problem confirming the ssl certificate

[jiansoung]

pip + there was a problem confirming the ssl certificate

Issue

  Could not fetch URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/scrapy/: There was a problem confirming the ssl certificate: [SSL: TLSV1_ALERT_PROTOCOL_VERSION] tlsv1 alert protocol version (_ssl.c:645) - skipping
  Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement Scrapy
No matching distribution found for Scrapy

Fix

Upgrade pip using:

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | python3

References

• Problem Confirming the SSL Certificate - OSX