Python pip install local on cluster openssl issues - linux

Question

I am trying to get python3 and pip installed as my own user on a cluster.
The make test fails with:
FAILED (failures=1)
test test_dbm_dumb failed
7 tests failed again:
test_dbm_dumb test_import test_mailbox test_os test_pathlib
test_stat test_tarfile
Total duration: 9 min 21 sec
Tests result: FAILURE
make: *** [test] Error 1
THis is some other info that may pertain to the error
INFO: Can't locate Tcl/Tk libs and/or headers
warning: building with the bundled copy of libffi is deprecated on this platform. It will not be distributed with Python 3.7
Python build finished successfully!
The necessary bits to build these optional modules were not found:
_bz2 _curses _curses_panel
_dbm _gdbm _lzma
_sqlite3 _ssl _tkinter
readline
To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in detect_modules() for the module's name.
The following modules found by detect_modules() in setup.py, have been
built by the Makefile instead, as configured by the Setup files:
atexit pwd time
but I continued on anyways with make install.
It appears there are openSSL issues. Please see below:
-bash-4.2$ python3 get-pip.py --user
pip is configured with locations that require TLS/SSL, however the ssl module in Python is not available.
Could not fetch URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/pip/: There was a problem confirming the ssl certificate: Can't connect to HTTPS URL because the SSL module is not available. - skipping
Requirement already up-to-date: pip in ./tools/python/lib/python3.6/site-packages
Collecting wheel
Could not fetch URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/wheel/: There was a problem confirming the ssl certificate: Can't connect to HTTPS URL because the SSL module is not available. - skipping
Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement wheel (from versions: )
No matching distribution found for wheel
-bash-4.2$ python3 pip
python3: can't open file 'pip': [Errno 2] No such file or directory
-bash-4.2$ ldd /home/CAM/anesta/tools/openssl/lib/libssl.so.1.1
linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007ffe1796d000)
libcrypto.so.1.1 => /home/CAM/anesta/tools/openssl/lib/libcrypto.so.1.1 (0x00007fc88093b000)
libdl.so.2 => /usr/lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fc88072b000)
libpthread.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fc88050f000)
libc.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007fc88014e000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fc88102f000)
So it appears openssl is installed. Why does the make test say that is doesn't have ssl? Additionally I have bzip2 installed and python says that is not found too.
There must be something I'm missing here.
Thanks,
Alex
EDIT: no SSL module installed in python
-bash-4.2$ python3 -c "import ssl"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/home/CAM/anesta/tools/python/lib/python3.6/ssl.py", line 101, in <module>
import _ssl # if we can't import it, let the error propagate
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_ssl'