[Python] Gmail API - Turn off SSL Certificate Verification

I am trying to run the Gmail API example found here. Everything works fine up until I run the quickstart.py example, which gives me the error:

SSLCertVerificationError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: self signed certificate in certificate chain (_ssl.c:1045)


So far I have tried the two commands to disable ssl verification to see if that solves the issue but the issue persists:

conda config --set ssl_verify False


and

set SSL_NO_VERIFY=1


I have found a general troubleshooting guide for the same error and a helpful solution to the problem here. My question is, how do I adapt the quick start example to disable client-side certificate verification like form the example by randomir:

requests.get('https://website.lo', verify=False)


I am running Windows 7 (x64) with Anaconda 5.3 (Python 3.7) and behind a corporate firewall.

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