Updating openssl in pyhton2.7

Updating openssl in pyhton2.7

wondering if someone may please explain how openssl works in python2.7.
I'm not sure if python got its own openssl or picks it up from local
machine/env?
let me explain: (if I do this in Python)
>>> import ssl
>>> ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION
'OpenSSL 0.9.8x 10 May 2012'
(In terminal)
$ openssl version
OpenSSL 0.9.8x 10 May 2012
$ which openssl
/usr/bin/openssl
now I updated openssl (downloaded .)
$ cd openssl-1.0.1c
$ ./Configure darwin64-x86_64-cc --prefix=/usr
--openssldir=/opt/local/etc/openssl shared
$ make
$ sudo make install
this created separate director(as specified), so I copied it to the old path
cp -f /usr/local/ssl/bin/openssl /usr/bin/openssl
now in terminal openssl version has been updated but not from python!
$ openssl version
OpenSSL 1.0.1c 10 May 2012
I did noticed that .dylib is still pointing to old version, how can I
change this?
$ ls -l /usr/lib/*ssl*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 411680 Jul 17 2012 /usr/lib/libssl.0.9.7.dylib
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 602800 May 24 03:43 /usr/lib/libssl.0.9.8.dylib
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 390908 Sep 9 17:37 /usr/lib/libssl.1.0.0.dylib
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 18 Jul 17 2012 /usr/lib/libssl.dylib ->
libssl.0.9.8.dylib