Merge issue #26355 fix from Python 3.5

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 20 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/ensurepip/__init__.py b/Lib/ensurepip/__init__.py
index 25c55679a3..9f5d15109a 100644
--- a/Lib/ensurepip/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/ensurepip/__init__.py
@@ -12,19 +12,6 @@ _SETUPTOOLS_VERSION = "28.8.0"
 
 _PIP_VERSION = "9.0.1"
 
-# pip currently requires ssl support, so we try to provide a nicer
-# error message when that is missing (http://bugs.python.org/issue19744)
-_MISSING_SSL_MESSAGE = ("pip {} requires SSL/TLS".format(_PIP_VERSION))
-try:
-    import ssl
-except ImportError:
-    ssl = None
-    def _require_ssl_for_pip():
-        raise RuntimeError(_MISSING_SSL_MESSAGE)
-else:
-    def _require_ssl_for_pip():
-        pass
-
 _PROJECTS = [
     ("setuptools", _SETUPTOOLS_VERSION),
     ("pip", _PIP_VERSION),
@@ -71,7 +58,6 @@ def bootstrap(*, root=None, upgrade=False, user=False,
     if altinstall and default_pip:
         raise ValueError("Cannot use altinstall and default_pip together")
 
-    _require_ssl_for_pip()
     _disable_pip_configuration_settings()
 
     # By default, installing pip and setuptools installs all of the
@@ -133,7 +119,6 @@ def _uninstall_helper(*, verbosity=0):
         print(msg.format(pip.__version__, _PIP_VERSION), file=sys.stderr)
         return
 
-    _require_ssl_for_pip()
     _disable_pip_configuration_settings()
 
     # Construct the arguments to be passed to the pip command
@@ -145,11 +130,6 @@ def _uninstall_helper(*, verbosity=0):
 
 
 def _main(argv=None):
-    if ssl is None:
-        print("Ignoring ensurepip failure: {}".format(_MISSING_SSL_MESSAGE),
-              file=sys.stderr)
-        return
-
     import argparse
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(prog="python -m ensurepip")
     parser.add_argument(