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Prairy
Prairy

Reputation: 13

Exception upon attempted import of BeautifulSoup

I am attempting to import Beautiful Soup4-4.1.0 into Python 3.3 (I have placed Beautiful Soup in: C:\Python33\Lib\site-packages\BeautifulSoup\bs4).

Using the following:

from BeautifulSoup import bs4

I receive the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#5>", line 1, in <module>
    from BeautifulSoup import bs4
  File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\BeautifulSoup\bs4\__init__.py", line 175
    except Exception, e:

Can anyone help with this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 987

Answers (1)

Victor Sigler
Victor Sigler

Reputation: 23449

I recommend you read the BeautifulSoup documentation because and I cite :

Beautiful Soup 4 works on both Python 2 (2.6+) and Python 3.

In any case BeautifulSoup 4 is published through PyPi, so if you can’t install it with the system packager, you can install it with easy_install or pip. The package name is beautifulsoup4, and the same package works on Python 2 and Python 3.

$ easy_install beautifulsoup4

$ pip install beautifulsoup4

If you don't have easy_install or pip installed, you can download the BeautifulSoup 4 source tarball and install it with setup.py. [Go to that folder and run command setup.py install (assuming *.py is known in path extensions, otherwise run 

c:\pythonXX\python setup.py install).

Upvotes: 1

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