From http://techglimpse.com/install-python-openssl-support-tutorial/
wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.11/Python-2.7.11.tgz
tar zxf Python-2.7.11.tgz
cd Python-2.7.11
vim Modules/Setup.dist
Search for SSL section and edit from
# Socket module helper for SSL support; you must comment out the other
# socket line above, and possibly edit the SSL variable:
#SSL=/usr/local/ssl
#_ssl _ssl.c \
# -DUSE_SSL -I$(SSL)/include -I$(SSL)/include/openssl \
# -L$(SSL)/lib -lssl -lcrypto
to
# Socket module helper for SSL support; you must comment out the other
# socket line above, and possibly edit the SSL variable:
SSL=/path/to/openssl # e.g. /opt/python/deps/openssl
_ssl _ssl.c \
-DUSE_SSL -I$(SSL)/include -I$(SSL)/include/openssl \
-L$(SSL)/lib -lssl -lcrypto