On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 11:40 PM, lostguru <aznjedi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday, December 28, 2012 11:12:19 PM UTC-5, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > "The website"? There's more than one website on the Internet. Which > > > > website are you referring to? What .py script did you download? How did > > > > you run it? Details are important! > > > sorry about that; I was using the setuptools package from pypi python [ > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools ]; I downloaded the ez_setup.py > file from under the 64-bit windows installation section and ran that (by > double clicking on it, I hope this wasn't another noob mistake lol) > > > > It looks like you tried to run the easy_install command from inside the > > > > Python interactive interpreter, rather than from your system shell. > > > > > > > > The system shell (command.com or cmd.exe I guess) will have a $ or % > sign > > > > as the prompt. Python usually has >>> as the prompt, although if you are > > > > running ActivePython it may be something else. You need to run the > > > > "easy_install BeautifulSoup4" command from the system shell, not Python. > > > > > > > > > > > > Try that, and if there's another error, please copy and paste the exact > > > > command you used, and the full error message. > > > running easy_install from the command line worked and BeautifulSoup4 seems > to have installed, thanks for pointing out my mistake > > the only problem I have now is that importing beautifulsoup into a .py > file I wrote generates an error (I'm using ActiveState Komodo Edit 7, is > there another program you would recommend to a beginner like me?) > > trying to run the script gives an import error: > ImportError: No module named BeautifulSoup > You should read the BeautifulSoup tutorial/documentation. If I remember correctly you do from bs4 import BeautifulSoup Look at this tutorial to get started: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/ > importing other modules like os and urllib that came with the python > installation work without problems > > looking online, all I've found were other accounts talking about a > beautifulsoup.py that should be in the C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages > directory, but I've found no such thing from the installation anywhere in > the Python folder (funnily enough, I did a drive search with Everything and > found a BeautifulSoup.py in my autodesk maya installation) > > am I somewhere near the mark? or am I off completely? > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- Joel Goldstick
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