Getting 'ImportError: urllib3 v2.0 only supports OpenSSL 1.1.1+' when configuring or building a project

[BasTossings]

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Configuration

Operating system: MacOS Ventura 13.4 (22F66) on Intel

PlatformIO Version (platformio --version): 6.1.7

Description of problem

Every time I (re)open or build my project in VSCode, or when I use the pio run command from the terminal, I get the following platformIO error:

CMake Error at /Users/redacted/.platformio/packages/framework-espidf/tools/cmake/build.cmake:519 (message):
  Traceback (most recent call last):

    File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main
      "__main__", mod_spec)
    File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code
      exec(code, run_globals)
    File "/Users/redacted/.platformio/penv/.espidf-5.0.2/lib/python3.7/site-packages/idf_component_manager/prepare_components/__main__.py", line 4, in <module>
      from .prepare import main
    File "/Users/redacted/.platformio/penv/.espidf-5.0.2/lib/python3.7/site-packages/idf_component_manager/prepare_components/prepare.py", line 18, in <module>
      from ..core import ComponentManager
    File "/Users/redacted/.platformio/penv/.espidf-5.0.2/lib/python3.7/site-packages/idf_component_manager/core.py", line 17, in <module>
      import requests
    File "/Users/redacted/.platformio/penv/.espidf-5.0.2/lib/python3.7/site-packages/requests/__init__.py", line 43, in <module>
      import urllib3
    File "/Users/redacted/.platformio/penv/.espidf-5.0.2/lib/python3.7/site-packages/urllib3/__init__.py", line 39, in <module>
      "urllib3 v2.0 only supports OpenSSL 1.1.1+, currently "

  ImportError: urllib3 v2.0 only supports OpenSSL 1.1.1+, currently the 'ssl'
  module is compiled with OpenSSL 1.1.0h 27 Mar 2018.  See:
  https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/2168

Call Stack (most recent call first):
  /Users/redacted/.platformio/packages/framework-espidf/tools/cmake/project.cmake:447 (idf_build_process)
  CMakeLists.txt:3 (project)

I get this error even when I create blank new project (EPS32 with ESP-IDF).

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create new project from within VSCode

Actual Results

Error occurs on the 'PlatformIO: Configuring project' or 'build' step

Expected Results

No errors

If problems with PlatformIO Build System:

The content of platformio.ini:

[env:lolin_d32]
platform = espressif32
board = lolin_d32
framework = espidf

Additional info

I tried reinstalling PlatformIO, both from within VSCode or using the bleeding edge installer script.

I tried deleting the ~/.platformio directory and then reinstalling.

I tried manually installing the latest OpenSSL.

openssl version -a returns:

OpenSSL 3.1.0 14 Mar 2023 (Library: OpenSSL 3.1.0 14 Mar 2023)
built on: Tue Mar 14 12:59:07 2023 UTC
platform: darwin64-x86_64-cc
options:  bn(64,64)
compiler: clang -fPIC -arch x86_64 -O3 -Wall -DL_ENDIAN -DOPENSSL_PIC -D_REENTRANT -DOPENSSL_BUILDING_OPENSSL -DNDEBUG
OPENSSLDIR: "/usr/local/etc/openssl@3"
ENGINESDIR: "/usr/local/Cellar/openssl@3/3.1.0/lib/engines-3"
MODULESDIR: "/usr/local/Cellar/openssl@3/3.1.0/lib/ossl-modules"
Seeding source: os-specific
CPUINFO: OPENSSL_ia32cap=0x7ffaf3ffffebffff:0x40000000029c67af

But none of that seems to help

Also, I tried the workaround for issue 4614 but no luck.

[BasTossings]

Okay I installed the latest version of python (3.11) and deleted my older versions (3.7 and 3.8) and reinstalled platformIO after deleting ~/.platformio and that seems to have fixed it. Maybe platformIO could warn users if their python version is out of date?