I had difficulty installing lxml for Python 3.1 under Windows, and took some notes as I worked through it. Here's how I finally managed it...
Go to http://lxml.de/installation.html#ms-windows. Follow the link to the "binary egg distribution of lxml" here: http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/lxml Download the lxml-2.3-py3.1-win32.egg file. The instructions say, "Just use easy_install by following the installation instructions above." Ha! Those instructions don't work for Python 3 under Windows. The (wrong) instructions are: Get the easy_install tool [from link http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall ] and run the following as super-user (or administrator): easy_install lxml On MS Windows, the above will install the binary builds that we provide. If there is no binary build of the latest release yet, please search PyPI for the last release that has them and pass that version to easy_install like this: easy_install lxml==2.2.2 However, that peak.telecommunity.com link goes to an old page that doesn't support Python 3. Instead, first we must install Distribute, which is a fork of Setuptools, to get easy_install. Download distribute_setup.py from here: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/distribute#distribute-setup-py Then run distribute_setup.py Now you should have an easy_install.exe file here: C:\python31\Scripts\easy_install.exe You can run it from a Windows Command Prompt to install lxml-2.3-py3.1- win32.egg, like this: C:\python31\Scripts\easy_install.exe lxml-2.3-py3.1-win32.egg Dave Burton http://www.burtonsys.com/email/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
