How can I test that I have a Python module successfully installed?

Question

I tried to install beautifulsoup. I get such an error:
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raise MissingSectionHeaderError(fpname, lineno, line)
ConfigParser.MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section headers.
file: /Users/Sam/.pydistutils.cfg, line: 1
'install_lib = ~/Library/Python/$py_version_short/site-packages\n'

I get an similar error as I run my Python code in vim by: :!python %

Answer 1

You can test if a module is installed like so:

$ python
>>> import modulename