Unable to install any package through pip on Ubuntu 20.04 - SSL error

[vedaaaaaaant]

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[vedaaaaaaant]

get the following errors whenever I try to install any package through pip3:

(base) user@user:~$ pip3 install pprint
WARNING: pip is configured with locations that require TLS/SSL, however the ssl module in Python is not available.
Requirement already satisfied: pprint in ./.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages (0.1)
WARNING: pip is configured with locations that require TLS/SSL, however the ssl module in Python is not available.
Could not fetch URL https://pypi.org/simple/pip/: There was a problem confirming the ssl certificate: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='pypi.org', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /simple/pip/ (Caused by SSLError("Can't connect to HTTPS URL because the SSL module is not available.")) - skipping
Tried to install the ssl module, but that didn't work either.

(base) user@user:~$ pip3 install ssl
WARNING: pip is configured with locations that require TLS/SSL, however the ssl module in Python is not available.
Collecting ssl
  WARNING: Retrying (Retry(total=4, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'SSLError("Can't connect to HTTPS URL because the SSL module is not available.")': /simple/ssl/
  WARNING: Retrying (Retry(total=3, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'SSLError("Can't connect to HTTPS URL because the SSL module is not available.")': /simple/ssl/
  WARNING: Retrying (Retry(total=2, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'SSLError("Can't connect to HTTPS URL because the SSL module is not available.")': /simple/ssl/
  WARNING: Retrying (Retry(total=1, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'SSLError("Can't connect to HTTPS URL because the SSL module is not available.")': /simple/ssl/
  WARNING: Retrying (Retry(total=0, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'SSLError("Can't connect to HTTPS URL because the SSL module is not available.")': /simple/ssl/
  Could not fetch URL https://pypi.org/simple/ssl/: There was a problem confirming the ssl certificate: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='pypi.org', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /simple/ssl/ (Caused by SSLError("Can't connect to HTTPS URL because the SSL module is not available.")) - skipping
  ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement ssl (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for ssl
WARNING: pip is configured with locations that require TLS/SSL, however the ssl module in Python is not available.
Could not fetch URL https://pypi.org/simple/pip/: There was a problem confirming the ssl certificate: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='pypi.org', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /simple/pip/ (Caused by SSLError("Can't connect to HTTPS URL because the SSL module is not available.")) - skipping

There were a couple of suggestions given in some of the other posts, but they didn't solve my problem. I tried the following in the terminal:

pip install --upgrade --user pip --trusted-host=pypi.python.org --trusted-host=pypi.org --trusted-host=files.pythonhosted.org
But it didn't work.

I have multiple versions of python installed on my Ubuntu 20.04 system. These versions show up in visual studio code. I'm scared about deleting one of the python installations, as I feel that might wreck the OS.

How can I fix the problem?

[deveshks]

You should also close the duplicate issue #8486

[vedaaaaaaant]

Deleted #8486

[uranusjr]

#8473 contains a write up to this problem, with several reference links you can follow to resolve the problem.