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  "publishedAt": "2026-04-16T00:31:20.000Z",
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  "textContent": "> Someone on a Python message board told me that no Python prior to 3.0 supports OpenSSL, but showed a Python module related to Openssl to bypass this issue. Not sure if I would be able to install it, or if it would require too much work. On the other hand, this Tauthon has no release, so it would also be problematic. Trying to decide which path is less trouble.\n\nHonestly, the easiest path for now is to use a Docker container to install something like Oracle Linux 8... and use the Python 2 from that environment. It shouldn't be needed, but it honestly sounds like there's way too much conflicting information around the Python 2 build process for an average user to make heads or tales of it. Which is why the next release should be compatible with Python 3...\n\nI can only tell you that the person on the message board was probably thinking chronologically... Python 3.0 came out in 2008, but the last version of Python 2 came out in 2020. Most of the people in the Python community aren't knowledgeable about the later versions of Python 2, seeing it only as \"legacy.\"\n\nThe reality seems to be that Python 2.7 expects something like OpenSSL 0.x.x out of the box, and can probably be made to work with OpenSSL 1.x easily, and later versions with more patching, but that one sticking point is basically why it can't be built easily.\n\nTauthon, on the other hand, should build out of the box on any modern Linux distro. With that project, you basically just build against current master because the code is very stable and it's really just fixing up things that break compilation on newer systems at this point.\n\n* * *",
  "title": "Browser Development • Re: Building error related to Python.",
  "updatedAt": "2026-04-16T00:31:20.000Z"
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