[GA-API] AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'HTTPSConnection'

[swami bebop]

Hi all,

I'm using the python client gdata-2.0.9 to retrieve data feeds from
Google Analytics.
I'm running the same code on a Mac OS 10.6.3 and on a Debian 5.0, both
running python 2.6.5. Here's the bit of the code that instantiates the
client and tries to login

import sys
sys.path.append('lib/gdata-2.0.9/src')
from sys import argv, stderr
from datetime import datetime, timedelta, date
from re import search
import gdata.analytics.client
import glob, os, csv, codecs, cStringIO

def get_logged_in_ga_client(email, password, source):
""" Instantiate a google analytics client and try to login """
ga_client = gdata.analytics.client.AnalyticsClient()
try:
ga_client.client_login(
email = email,
password = password,
source = source,
service = 'analytics',
account_type = 'GOOGLE'
)
except gdata.client.Error as e:
print >>stderr, e
exit(1)
return ga_client

This code executes just fine on the Mac, but gives me the following
error in Debian, which suggests that my python installation may be
missing something, but I can't figure out what:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "extract_fact_snapshot_daily_pageviews.py", line 156, in
<module>
main()
File "extract_fact_snapshot_daily_pageviews.py", line 151, in main
ga_client = get_logged_in_ga_client(ga_email, ga_password,
source=os.path.basename(argv[0]))
File "extract_fact_snapshot_daily_pageviews.py", line 74, in
get_logged_in_ga_client
account_type = 'GOOGLE'
File "lib/gdata-2.0.9/src/gdata/client.py", line 442, in
client_login
captcha_token=captcha_token, captcha_response=captcha_response)
File "lib/gdata-2.0.9/src/gdata/client.py", line 341, in
request_client_login_token
response = self.http_client.request(http_request)
File "lib/gdata-2.0.9/src/atom/http_core.py", line 420, in request
http_request.headers, http_request._body_parts)
File "lib/gdata-2.0.9/src/atom/http_core.py", line 460, in
_http_request
connection = self._get_connection(uri, headers=headers)
File "lib/gdata-2.0.9/src/atom/http_core.py", line 530, in
_get_connection
return HttpClient._get_connection(self, uri, headers=headers)
File "lib/gdata-2.0.9/src/atom/http_core.py", line 435, in
_get_connection
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection(uri.host)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'HTTPSConnection'


Does anyone know what is going on?
Any help is most appreciated.

Thank you

Marcos

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[Nick]

hmm...

Per the Python docs: http://docs.python.org/library/httplib.html

HTTPS support is only available if the socket module was compiled with
SSL support.

Do you know if this was enabled?
-Nick

[swami bebop]

Thank you Nick! I think your comment has definitely put me in the
right track,
but the problem now is that I'm unable to "compile the socket module
with SSL support".
I installed openssl-0.9.8g (...and also tried the 1.0.0 version) and
then ran Python2.6.5/configure - make - make install
and keep getting the error:

Failed to build these modules:
_hashlib _ssl

(The truth is, I'm a total python newbie)

Thank you so much for all your help!

Marcos

[swami bebop]

Solved it. All I had to do was:

apt-get install libssl-dev

Then configure, make, and make install inside the Python2.6.5 folder
so
that the installation is able to pick up the ssl library.

Thank you all for your help

Marcos