Can't install lxml for python 3.8.1 on windows

Question

I am on Windows 10 64-bit, in a venv.

Pip install lxml return 

Could not find function xmlCheckVersion in library libxml2. Is libxml2 installed?

So I tried to use the appropriate .whl availlable here (lxml-4.5.0-cp38-cp38-win_amd64.whl) which leads to another error:

lxml-4.5.0-cp38-cp38-win_amd64.whl is not a supported wheel on this platform.

I tried to use pip.exe, pip3.exe, pip3.8.exe and the 64x and 32x bit versions of the .whl file without success

Am I missing something or is the Python 3.8 version of the package not compatible with Python 3.8.1?

Answer 1

This happens because you probably have an older version of python alongside 3.8 and when you install the package it references the older one. You can try deleting all python versions and installing Python 3.8 again