Python Beatbox to Salesforce Error Connecting to Salesforce - python-2.7

Question

I just had my computer re-imaged and have Python 2.7.9 (64-bit) installed on my machine. Using PIP I have beatbox 32.1 installed.
When I make the call to connect to Salesforce:
sf_client.login(sf_username, sf_password)
logging.info('Connected successfully')
I receive an error message. I have tried just the normal login credentials which has always worked and have attempted to connect with my token in the password too.
Has anyone run into this error with Python Beatbox and do you know what debugging options I could try to get to the bottom of this?
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\myCode\salesforceload_beatbox.py", line 126, in <module>
sf_client.login(sf_username, sf_password)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\beatbox\python_client.py", line 76, in login
res = BaseClient.login(self, username, passwd)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\beatbox\_beatbox.py", line 62, in login
lr = LoginRequest(self.serverUrl, username, password).post()
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\beatbox\_beatbox.py", line 330, in post
raise RuntimeError('No response from Salesforce')
RuntimeError: No response from Salesforce
After digging deeper into this (and debugging the HTTP connection with requests package), I'm failing at this level
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\myCode\SFDC\test_beatbox_call2.py", line 34, in <module>
requests.get(sf_client.login(sf_username, sf_password))
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\beatbox\python_client.py", line 76, in login
res = BaseClient.login(self, username, passwd)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\beatbox\_beatbox.py", line 78, in login
lr = LoginRequest(self.serverUrl, username, password).post()
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\beatbox\_beatbox.py", line 344, in post
conn.request("POST", path, self.makeEnvelope(), headers)
File "C:\Python27\lib\httplib.py", line 1001, in request
self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
File "C:\Python27\lib\httplib.py", line 1035, in _send_request
self.endheaders(body)
File "C:\Python27\lib\httplib.py", line 997, in endheaders
self._send_output(message_body)
File "C:\Python27\lib\httplib.py", line 850, in _send_output
self.send(msg)
File "C:\Python27\lib\httplib.py", line 812, in send
self.connect()
File "C:\Python27\lib\httplib.py", line 1216, in connect
server_hostname=server_hostname)
File "C:\Python27\lib\ssl.py", line 350, in wrap_socket
_context=self)
File "C:\Python27\lib\ssl.py", line 566, in __init__
self.do_handshake()
File "C:\Python27\lib\ssl.py", line 788, in do_handshake
self._sslobj.do_handshake()
ssl.SSLError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:581)

Answer 1

After searching and googling profusely about TLS connections, etc, I noticed this weekend that my cmd.exe window (which I run the PIP commands from) was launching under C:\Windows\System32> and all of my vms were launching within my personal user directory.
So I searched for my roaming cmd.exe and when I opened that, it was to my personal user directory.
After doing an uninstall and install of beatbox using PIP in the new cmd.exe, all of my Salesforce calls via Beatbox work like they used to.
Now I can't fully explain why this is the case, but something tells me that the certs for this admin location are probably mismatched to my personal certificates. I'm up and running again.