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[oberstet@brummer2 ~]$ ~/python1/bin/python
Python 2.7.9 (default, Dec 13 2014, 11:56:09)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible FreeBSD Clang 3.4.1 (tags/RELEASE_34/dot1-final 208032)] o                                         n freebsd10
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from boto.s3.connection import S3Connection
>>> conn = S3Connection()
>>> bucket = s3.get_bucket("web-autobahn-ws")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 's3' is not defined
>>> bucket = conn.get_bucket("web-autobahn-ws")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/oberstet/python1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/boto/s3/connection.py                                         ", line 502, in get_bucket
    return self.head_bucket(bucket_name, headers=headers)
  File "/home/oberstet/python1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/boto/s3/connection.py                                         ", line 521, in head_bucket
    response = self.make_request('HEAD', bucket_name, headers=headers)
  File "/home/oberstet/python1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/boto/s3/connection.py                                         ", line 664, in make_request
    retry_handler=retry_handler
  File "/home/oberstet/python1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/boto/connection.py",                                          line 1068, in make_request
    retry_handler=retry_handler)
  File "/home/oberstet/python1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/boto/connection.py",                                          line 942, in _mexe
    request.body, request.headers)
  File "/opt/python279/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1001, in request
    self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
  File "/opt/python279/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1035, in _send_request
    self.endheaders(body)
  File "/opt/python279/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 997, in endheaders
    self._send_output(message_body)
  File "/opt/python279/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 850, in _send_output
    self.send(msg)
  File "/opt/python279/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 812, in send
    self.connect()
  File "/opt/python279/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1212, in connect
    server_hostname=server_hostname)
  File "/opt/python279/lib/python2.7/ssl.py", line 350, in wrap_socket
    _context=self)
  File "/opt/python279/lib/python2.7/ssl.py", line 566, in __init__
    self.do_handshake()
  File "/opt/python279/lib/python2.7/ssl.py", line 788, in do_handshake
    self._sslobj.do_handshake()
ssl.SSLError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c                                         :581)
>>>
KeyboardInterrupt

Easy fix: Go back to python 2.7.8