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John Mee
John Mee

Reputation: 52233

How to use libxml2 with python on macOs?

I'm on OSX Lion and I have libxml2 installed (by default) and I have python installed (by default) but they don't talk to one another. What's the simplest way to make this work on Lion?

$ python -c "import libxml2"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named libxml2

Upvotes: 6

Views: 13725

Answers (4)

jeswang
jeswang

Reputation: 1027

tkone's answer is OK. But brew also can do it.

Try this,

  $ brew install libxml2 --with-python

Upvotes: 7

tkone
tkone

Reputation: 22728

  1. Visit ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/python/ and ensure this is the latest version
  2. Download it
  3. unpack it
  4. open a term and cd to that directory
  5. type sudo python setup.py install
  6. ls /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ and you should see a bunch of libxml2 files
  7. try the test again and it should work

You'll need XCode installed, but like, you should already have that installed, right?

Upvotes: 14

Veelion Chong
Veelion Chong

Reputation: 23

Just use Pypi to install python module packages, by typing :

sudo pip search libxml  and sudo pip install libxml

Upvotes: -4

larsks
larsks

Reputation: 311238

I don't believe the stock Python ships with the libxml2 module. You can install macports, and then do this:

$ sudo port install py27-libxml2

...and after a short wait while everything installs, end up with Python 2.7, libxml2, and the libxml2 Python module.

Upvotes: 0

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