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I have windows vista with Python 2.7. I would like to install BeautifulSoup 4 but apparently I can't install Beautiful Soup just by copying the file into the site-packages directory. I have to install pip and then run some commands from the command prompt. Could you guide me through that step by step. I am really a noob so make it very simple. Thanks in advance
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To use beautiful soup, you need to install it: $ pip install beautifulsoup4 . Beautiful Soup also relies on a parser, the default is lxml . You may already have it, but you should check (open IDLE and attempt to import lxml). If not, do: $ pip install lxml or $ apt-get install python-lxml .
To install Beautifulsoup on Windows, Linux, or any operating system, one would need pip package. To check how to install pip on your operating system, check out – PIP Installation – Windows || Linux. Wait and relax, Beautifulsoup would be installed shortly.
Beautiful soup3 was officially released in May 2006, Latest version released by Beautiful Soup is 4.9. 2, and it supports Python 3 and Python 2.4 as well.
You don't need pip for installing Beautiful Soup - you can just download it and run python setup.py install from the directory that you have unzipped BeautifulSoup in (assuming that you have added Python to your system PATH - if you haven't and you don't want to you can run C:\Path\To\Python27\python "C:\Path\To\BeautifulSoup\setup.py" install)
However, you really should install pip - see How to install pip on Windows for how to do that best (via @MartijnPieters comment)
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