[Python] Mac OSX python ssl.SSLError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify...

Many operations in Python require accessing things via https. This includes pip install command, or just using http.client.HTTPSConnection, or any modules or applications that use these things internally.

If python was installed from the official python pkg installer, downloaded from https://python.org, then it uses an internal version of openssl, and contains no root certificates. Anything that uses an SSL connection results in this error:

ssl.SSLError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:749)


How can I install root certs to make the above error go away?

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