Here’s how to fix that nagging InsecurePlatformWarning warning in Python.
The issue
InsecurePlatformWarning: A true SSLContext object is not available. This prevents urllib3 from configuring SSL appropriately and may cause certain SSL connections to fail. For more information, see https://urllib3.readthedocs.org/en/latest/security.html#insecureplatformwarning.
Assuming you have pip for python installed, read on…
Ubuntu 14.04 fix
sudo apt-get install libffi-dev libssl-dev
sudo pip install -U requests[security]