From 11b51286fdaf63bfb23e66871a0ae49cdfe1aead Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: volodymyrrozdolsky <rozdolskyvolodymyr@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2023 15:40:55 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] fixing ssl issue urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error
 [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed:

---
 letter_frequencies/letter_counter_single_thread.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/letter_frequencies/letter_counter_single_thread.py b/letter_frequencies/letter_counter_single_thread.py
index 58addc8..001d308 100644
--- a/letter_frequencies/letter_counter_single_thread.py
+++ b/letter_frequencies/letter_counter_single_thread.py
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 import json
 import urllib.request
 import time
-
+import ssl
+import certifi
 
 def count_letters(url, frequency):
+    ssl._create_default_https_context = lambda: ssl.create_default_context(cafile=certifi.where())
     response = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
     txt = str(response.read())
     for l in txt:

From 23f42f4d0b7e2560497b96a1e1e5d91dcaa84597 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: volodymyrrozdolsky <rozdolskyvolodymyr@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2023 15:54:41 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] fixing ssl issue urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error
 [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: in
 latter_count.py

---
 letter_frequencies/letter_counter.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/letter_frequencies/letter_counter.py b/letter_frequencies/letter_counter.py
index 26f3421..9db5090 100644
--- a/letter_frequencies/letter_counter.py
+++ b/letter_frequencies/letter_counter.py
@@ -2,11 +2,14 @@
 import urllib.request
 import time
 from threading import Thread, Lock
+import ssl
+import certifi
 
 finished_count = 0
 
 
 def count_letters(url, frequency, mutex):
+    ssl._create_default_https_context = lambda: ssl.create_default_context(cafile=certifi.where())
     response = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
     txt = str(response.read())
     mutex.acquire()