OpenSSL version for python

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Hi,

I am trying to use the bertopic package in Python, but I’m facing issues because of a mismatch in OpenSSL versions. Here’s the situation:

  1. Python’s Built-In OpenSSL: Python 3.8.6 is built with OpenSSL 1.0.2o-fips (2018).
  • Verified via: python -c "import ssl; print(ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION)"
  1. System OpenSSL: The system’s OpenSSL version is 1.1.1k.
  • Verified via: openssl version

bertopic requires OpenSSL 1.1.1+, which is incompatible with Python’s current OpenSSL.

I would like to run Python with a version of OpenSSL compatible with the bertopic package (1.1.1+).

Thanks for your help,
Maria

2

Hi Maria

For future request pleas post on HPC issues catergorie and use the provided template.

Could you please give me the sbatch and the code to reproduce the error ?

How did you install bertopic

3

Hi,

Ive loaded the module and active my venv (the batch is in /home/users/r/reva/SFN_LNP/scripts/bert.sh) :

module load GCCcore/10.2.0 Python/3.8.6
. /home/users/r/reva//env_name/bin/activate

The error pops up when I simply do import, take aside running the code, just import fails : from bertopic import BERTopic

bertopic was installed directly in my venv via pip install.

Let me know if I can provide any other info.

Thanks,
Maria

4

Hi,

let me know if I can provide more information.

Thank you,

Maria

5

I am sorry for the wait time, we are on urgent issue impacting serverals users :confused:

6

Hi Adrien,

No problems. Please let me know if you had time to look into it.

Thank you,
Maria

7

@Maria.Reva

I’ve recompiled Python 3.8.6 with more recent OpenSSL version:

Before:

(baobab)-[sagon@login1 ~]$ python -c "import ssl; print(ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION)"
OpenSSL 1.0.2o-fips  27 Mar 2018

After:

(baobab)-[sagon@login1 ~]$ python -c "import ssl; print(ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION)"
OpenSSL 1.1.1k  FIPS 25 Mar 2021

By the way: is there a reason to use this old Python version instead of the latest we provide?

Best

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Thanks a lot!

In my experience 3.8 worked well when prototyping on my personal machine, python version >3.9 resulted in the incompatibilities with others lib that we use along the way.

Thanks again,
Maria