Python: AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'HTTPSConnection'

To link custom built software with library you need to have C headers installed. In ubuntu they are in -dev packages (libname-dev).

In your particular case you need to install libssl-dev (apt-get install libssl-dev) and

• If you need SSL related functionality in standard library, then you should rebuild your python 2.7 installation.

　开始编译安装

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/python2_7_11
make
make install