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user7313804
user7313804

Reputation:

BeautifulSoup Python3 version

I keep getting this traceback. I've used BeautifulSoup before with Python3 so I'm kind of confused as to why I would get this error now... '''Traceback (most recent call last): File "spider.py", line 7, in from bs4 import BeautifulSoup File "/home/cambam/Desktop/Python/Coursera/P4E/CapStone/pagerank/bs4/init.py", line 54 'You are trying to run the Python 2 version of Beautiful Soup under Python 3. This will not work.'<>'You need to convert the code, either by installing it (python setup.py install) or by running 2to3 (2to3 -w bs4).' ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax '''

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2143

Answers (2)

J_H
J_H

Reputation: 20415

Obtaining python2 code in the first place sounds inconvenient. Better to grab the right version at the outset.

Delete the old Soup code you downloaded, and grab a fresh copy:

$ python3 -m pip install beautifulsoup4

If you look at which pip or pip --version you may notice that it corresponds to python2. Using the -m module syntax above will ensure that you get a proper python3 version that installs libraries where python3 will look for them.

Upvotes: 2

user7313804
user7313804

Reputation:

OK I already figured out the answer.

First I ran 'sudo apt install 2to3' in the command line

Then 2to3 -w bs4

I ran the program again and now it works.

Upvotes: 0

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