Lonestar - CSA Python has no proper SSL module

[drelu]

import ssl Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "/share1/projects/xsede/SAGA/external/python/2.7.1/gcc-4.1.2/lib/python2.7/ssl.py", line 60, in import _ssl # if we can't import it, let the error propagate ImportError: No module named _ssl

[andre-merzky]

I am not really sure what that means. Should that be installed by default, or did some BigJob dependency fail? Or do you want me to install it additionally?

[drelu]

This is needed for the Globus Online Python client. Usually ssl.py is part of the standard Python distribution. I assume that something during the Python configure/make went wrong. These commands should work with a correctly installed Python:

(python)tg804093@login2 ~$ python 
Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, May 30 2011, 06:24:42) 
[GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-48)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import ssl
Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
    File "/share1/projects/xsede/SAGA/external/python/2.7.1/gcc-4.1.2/lib/python2.7/ssl.py", line 60, in <module>
    import _ssl             # if we can't import it, let the error propagate
    ImportError: No module named _ssl

[andre-merzky]

I think I need some help here. Python configure options don't mention ssl. Configure finishes w/o warning. Compile finishes w/o error, and tells me::

Python build finished, but the necessary bits to build these modules were not found:
bsddb             bsddb185           dbm
dl                 gdbm               imageop

The module itself seems to be available:

login1$ cd external/python/ login1$ du -a | grep -i ssl 16 ./2.7.1/gcc-4.1.2/lib/python2.7/ssl.py 48 ./2.7.1/gcc-4.1.2/lib/python2.7/test/test_ssl.pyc 4 ./2.7.1/gcc-4.1.2/lib/python2.7/test/ssl_cert.pem 4 ./2.7.1/gcc-4.1.2/lib/python2.7/test/ssl_key.pem 60 ./2.7.1/gcc-4.1.2/lib/python2.7/test/test_ssl.py 48 ./2.7.1/gcc-4.1.2/lib/python2.7/test/test_ssl.pyo 16 ./2.7.1/gcc-4.1.2/lib/python2.7/ssl.pyo 16 ./2.7.1/gcc-4.1.2/lib/python2.7/ssl.pyc

But it indeed does not load (same error as you see).

Sooo, any idea how to debug this?

Thanks, Andre.