upgrading Django to version 4.0 and installing Python 3.10

webtweakers

I just tried upgrading Django to version 4.0 and installing Python 3.10, using my own installer: https://github.com/webtweakers/deploy. Unfortunately building Python failed with this message:

Could not build the ssl module!
Python requires a OpenSSL 1.1.1 or newer

The process continues, but fails later when trying to use PIP with SSL:

WARNING: pip is configured with locations that require TLS/SSL, however the ssl module in Python is not available.

An issue exists about that here: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/91357
Apparently it's recommended to install libssl-dev first...

Also the SSL message is not wrong:

$ openssl version
OpenSSL 1.0.2k-fips  26 Jan 2017

That version seems rather old... In short: complications. 🙂

Would be nice if Python 3.10 was available system-wide. Any progress on that? Or any tips to fix these build issues?

sean

webtweakers to build Python 3.10 you must first build a current OpenSSL and then build Python against that. For an example of how to do that please refer to the Python build script that is bundled with our Django installer:

https://github.com/opalstack/installers/blob/master/core/django/build_python.sh

There's no ETA for Python 3.10 at the moment.

webtweakers

Ok, that worked! Thanks as always, Sean.