Wait! Cancel my last post!
In exploring the virtual environment, I was struck by the existence of an
executable *pip *in the virtual environment's "bin" directory. So I tried
again to install BeautifulSoup, but this time I got a very different error
message. This pip couldn't find BeautifulSoup, u
I believe it's because you're installing that into a directory that the
current user has no write privileges for. Try installing those into a
virtual environment (if you don't know what that is, let us know!).
-Jorge
On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 1:27 PM, Bryan Zimmer
wrote:
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I have had only partial success with pip. Some things seem to install OK.
But I've tried a couple of packages, specifically "BeautifulSoup" and
"WxPython", and they fail with the same message, e.g.:
*Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in
/tmp/pip-build-ku98d6jd/BeautifulSo
I have been getting this message, "No module named '_socket'", since I
installed python 3.6, about two months ago.
My platform is Slackware Linux (14.2). I compiled python3.6 from source,
because binary python packages aren't distributed by python.org for Linux.
I have the same experience on multi
