title: SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1108) Discord/python
body: <p>I'm using Pycharm and python 3.8 and latest version of discord. I tried to run this script but got this error. Can anyone help? </p>
  
  <pre><code>import discord
  
  TOKEN = 'xxxxx'
  
  client = discord.Client()
  
  @client.event
  async def on_message(message):
      # we do not want the bot to reply to itself
      if message.author == client.user:
          return
  
      if message.content.startswith('!hello'):
          msg = 'Hello {0.author.mention}'.format(message)
          await client.send_message(message.channel, msg)
  
  @client.event
  async def on_ready():
      print('Logged in as')
      print(client.user.name)
      print(client.user.id)
      print('------')
  
  client.run(TOKEN)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>------ error below -------</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>/Users/mellie/PycharmProjects/Dominations/venv/bin/python
    /Users/mellie/PycharmProjects/Dominations/Domi.py Traceback (most
    recent call last):   File
    "/Users/mellie/PycharmProjects/Dominations/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/aiohttp/connector.py",
    line 936, in _wrap_create_connection
        return await self._loop.create_connection(*args, **kwargs)  # type: ignore  # noqa   File
    "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/asyncio/base_events.py",
    line 1042, in create_connection
        transport, protocol = await self._create_connection_transport(   File
    "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/asyncio/base_events.py",
    line 1072, in _create_connection_transport
        await waiter   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/asyncio/sslproto.py",
    line 529, in data_received
        ssldata, appdata = self._sslpipe.feed_ssldata(data)   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/asyncio/sslproto.py",
    line 189, in feed_ssldata
        self._sslobj.do_handshake()   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/ssl.py",
    line 944, in do_handshake
        self._sslobj.do_handshake() ssl.SSLCertVerificationError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get
    local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1108)</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Traceback (most recent call last):   File
    "/Users/mellie/PycharmProjects/Dominations/Domi.py", line 24, in
    
        client.run(TOKEN)   File "/Users/mellie/PycharmProjects/Dominations/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/discord/client.py",
    line 640, in run
        return future.result()   File "/Users/mellie/PycharmProjects/Dominations/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/discord/client.py",
    line 621, in runner
        await self.start(*args, **kwargs)   File "/Users/mellie/PycharmProjects/Dominations/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/discord/client.py",
    line 584, in start
        await self.login(*args, bot=bot)   File "/Users/mellie/PycharmProjects/Dominations/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/discord/client.py",
    line 442, in login
        await self.http.static_login(token.strip(), bot=bot)   File "/Users/mellie/PycharmProjects/Dominations/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/discord/http.py",
    line 256, in static_login
        data = await self.request(Route('GET', '/users/@me'))   File "/Users/mellie/PycharmProjects/Dominations/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/discord/http.py",
    line 160, in request
        async with self.<strong>session.request(method, url, **kwargs) as r:   File
    "/Users/mellie/PycharmProjects/Dominations/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/aiohttp/client.py",
    line 1012, in __aenter</strong>
        self._resp = await self._coro   File "/Users/mellie/PycharmProjects/Dominations/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/aiohttp/client.py",
    line 480, in _request
        conn = await self._connector.connect(   File "/Users/mellie/PycharmProjects/Dominations/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/aiohttp/connector.py",
    line 523, in connect
        proto = await self._create_connection(req, traces, timeout)   File "/Users/mellie/PycharmProjects/Dominations/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/aiohttp/connector.py",
    line 858, in _create_connection
        _, proto = await self._create_direct_connection(   File "/Users/mellie/PycharmProjects/Dominations/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/aiohttp/connector.py",
    line 1004, in _create_direct_connection
        raise last_exc   File "/Users/mellie/PycharmProjects/Dominations/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/aiohttp/connector.py",
    line 980, in _create_direct_connection
        transp, proto = await self._wrap_create_connection(   File "/Users/mellie/PycharmProjects/Dominations/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/aiohttp/connector.py",
    line 938, in _wrap_create_connection
        raise ClientConnectorCertificateError( aiohttp.client_exceptions.ClientConnectorCertificateError: Cannot
    connect to host discordapp.com:443 ssl:True [SSLCertVerificationError:
    (1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed:
    unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1108)')]</p>
    
    <p>Process finished with exit code 1</p>
  </blockquote>