"urllib3 v2.0 only support OpenSSL 1.1.1+"?

Running python on macOS 10.13.6. I get this error.

I am looking for a way to proceed. Do I start with macOS? Should I try python? The same code works in a parallels vm running macOS High Sierra. I think I'll re-install python.

python3 firstRequestFedTrimmed.py

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "firstRequestFedTrimmed.py", line 9, in <module>
    import requests
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/requests/__init__.py", line 43, in <module>
    import urllib3
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/urllib3/__init__.py", line 42, 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 1.1.0j  20 Nov 2018'. See: https://github.chttps://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/2168

irstRequestFedTrimmed.py:

#
# the video:
#    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_vAx26I5yo
#
# Code from the youtube video
# although, link to code didn't exactly work

# an alternative
# https://maxtan.co/html_form

import requests

# fcc
url = 'https://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/AsrSearch/asrRegistrationSearch.jsp'

fiLatDir="N"

payload = {"fiLatDir":fiLatDir}

print("payload is ", payload)

try:
    r = requests.post(url, data=payload)
except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:  # This is the correct syntax
    print("==========> Error in Requests is ", e)
    raise SystemExit(e)    # <------------------------------ bye ------

print("r.text is ",r.text)
print("r.status_code is ", r.status_code)

f = opend("webPageQuery.txt", "w")
f.write(r.text)
f.close

Install python3 from

https://www.python.org/downloads/ 

pip3 install requests