I found the same issue as described in this bug report and it could be easily reproduced by this:
$ /usr/bin/python Python 2.7.8 (default, Sep 9 2014, 22:08:43) [GCC 4.9.1] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import ssl >>> help(ssl._ssl.sslwrap) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'sslwrap' $ /usr/bin/python Python 2.7.8 (default, Sep 9 2014, 22:08:43) [GCC 4.9.1] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import ssl >>> print ssl._ssl.__file__ /usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/_ssl.x86_64-linux-gnu.so $ dpkg -L libpython2.7-stdlib| grep ssl -i /usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/_ssl.x86_64-linux-gnu.so but with another own-complied version of python 2.7.8, these commands are working fine. There is definitely something wrong with this package. Thanks -- Best regards, Patrick