# Exception("Cannot import pyOpenSSL")

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/exception-cannot-import-pyopenssl/23958>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [March 14, 2017, 1:23am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/exception-cannot-import-pyopenssl/23958 "2017-03-14T01:23:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sumanth\_Reddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sumanth\_Reddy](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Sumanth_Reddy)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 1:23am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/exception-cannot-import-pyopenssl/23958/1 "2017-03-14T01:23:58Z")

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I’m getting the below issue, Can someone please help me?  
ansible version: 1.9.4  
python: 2.6  
pyopenssl: 0.10

FAILED =\> Traceback (most recent call last):  
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/runner/init.py”, line 586, in \_executor  
exec\_rc = self.\_executor\_internal(host, new\_stdin)  
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/runner/init.py”, line 789, in \_executor\_internal  
return self.\_executor\_internal\_inner(host, self.module\_name, self.module\_args, inject, port, complex\_args=complex\_args)  
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/runner/init.py”, line 968, in \_executor\_internal\_inner  
conn = self.connector.connect(actual\_host, actual\_port, actual\_user, actual\_pass, actual\_transport, actual\_private\_key\_file, delegate\_host)  
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/runner/connection.py”, line 35, in connect  
conn = utils.plugins.connection\_loader.get(transport, self.runner, host, port, user=user, password=password, private\_key\_file=private\_key\_file)  
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/utils/plugins.py”, line 218, in get  
self.\_module\_cache[path] = imp.load\_source(‘.’.join([self.package, name]), path)  
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/runner/connection\_plugins/winrm.py”, line 32, in  
from winrm import Response  
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/winrm/init.py”, line 6, in  
from winrm.protocol import Protocol  
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/winrm/protocol.py”, line 11, in  
from winrm.transport import Transport  
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/winrm/transport.py”, line 42, in  
from requests\_credssp import HttpCredSSPAuth  
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/requests\_credssp/init.py”, line 1, in  
from .credssp import HttpCredSSPAuth  
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/requests\_credssp/credssp.py”, line 8, in  
raise Exception(“Cannot import pyOpenSSL”)  
Exception: Cannot import pyOpenSSL