diff --git a/lib/ansible/module_utils/urls.py b/lib/ansible/module_utils/urls.py
index 9de91d244e..9934ba127a 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/module_utils/urls.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/module_utils/urls.py
@@ -571,6 +571,8 @@ def build_ssl_validation_error(hostname, port, paths, exc=None):
     if not HAS_SSLCONTEXT:
         msg.append('If the website serving the url uses SNI you need'
                    ' python >= 2.7.9 on your managed machine')
+        msg.append(' (the python executable used (%s) is version: %s)' %
+                   (sys.executable, ''.join(sys.version.splitlines())))
         if not HAS_URLLIB3_PYOPENSSLCONTEXT or not HAS_URLLIB3_SSL_WRAP_SOCKET:
             msg.append('or you can install the `urllib3`, `pyOpenSSL`,'
                        ' `ndg-httpsclient`, and `pyasn1` python modules')