[Python] SSL: SSLV3_ALERT_HANDSHAKE_FAILURE sslv3 alert handshake failure (_ssl.c:833)

I have a simple TLS client in python running in Ubuntu 18.04 and openssl version 1.1.0g. The client supports a single ciphersuite. I get an error when trying to connect to a TLS 1.0 server. The cipher suite is not supported by the server. I know that the reason for the error is most likely due to lack of ciphersuite mismatch but I am looking for a more meaningful error for the user in this case. The error I am getting at the moment is pointing to SSLv3 which neither the client nor the server has anything to do with SSLv3. The client disables SSLv3 and the server as well. This is the error :

[SSL: SSLV3_ALERT_HANDSHAKE_FAILURE] sslv3 alert handshake failure (_ssl.c:833)


My question is: I need a better error message says for example (lack of ciphersuite mismatch or something like that is relevant to ciphersuite issue). Is there any? Of course I could write my own message but the socket connection can fail for various reasons and I can not make a general error that always says "ciphersuite mismatch".

This is the client script:

import socket,ssl
import itertools

context = ssl.SSLContext()

context.verify_mode = ssl.CERT_NONE
context.check_hostname = False

ciphers = "ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256"
context.set_ciphers(ciphers)

s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)

domainName = "privatedomain.com"
sslSocket = context.wrap_socket(s, server_hostname = domainName)

try:
sslSocket.connect((domainName, 443))
except (ssl.SSLError, ssl.SSLEOFError, ssl.CertificateError,ssl.SSLSyscallError, ssl.SSLWantWriteError, ssl.SSLWantReadError,ssl.SSLZeroReturnError) as e:
print("Error: ",e)
sslSocket.close()

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