SSL error when uploading version through API

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For reference and for those who might stumble on this thread in the future, here is a post from one of our engineers.

CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED error on Windows

Hi, We’ve received reports of some users experiencing issues uploading and downloading media from Amazon with the Python API in the last few days on Windows. This issue manifests itself by the Python API raising the following error message: shotgun_api3.shotgun.ShotgunFileDownloadError: Failed to open https://xxx.shotgunstudio.com/file_serve/attachment/xyz <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1108)> It appear…