Re: noob can't install python modules/scripts

2012-12-29 Thread lostguru
On Saturday, December 29, 2012 9:33:59 AM UTC-5, Joel Goldstick wrote: > 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

Re: noob can't install python modules/scripts

2012-12-29 Thread Joel Goldstick
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 11:40 PM, lostguru 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? De

Re: noob can't install python modules/scripts

2012-12-28 Thread lostguru
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 se

Re: noob can't install python modules/scripts

2012-12-28 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 28 Dec 2012 17:45:56 -0800, lostguru wrote: > using easy_install as an example, I downloaded the .py script the > website told me to use for 64-bit installations, and ran it; "The website"? There's more than one website on the Internet. Which website are you referring to? What .py scrip

Re: noob can't install python modules/scripts

2012-12-28 Thread lostguru
I guess I should add that the python installation is 64-bit as well thanks again! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

noob can't install python modules/scripts

2012-12-28 Thread lostguru
hi, I'm not that new to programming (java) but I'm a pathetic newbie when it comes to python. I just started learning today and I'm trying to install third-party modules/scripts (I don't know the difference at the moment) so that they'll work in python; namely, easy_install/pip/distribute and be