Installing BeautifulSoup with easy_install (broken?)
Larry Bates
larry.bates at websafe.com`
Fri Apr 18 11:45:52 EDT 2008
Info:
Python version: ActivePython 2.5.1.1
Platform: Windows
I wanted to install BeautifulSoup today for a small project and decided to use
easy_install. I can install other packages just fine. Unfortunately I get the
following error from BeautifulSoup installation attempt:
C:\Python25\Lib\SITE-P~1>easy_install BeautifulSoup
Searching for BeautifulSoup
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/BeautifulSoup/
Reading http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
Reading http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/download/
Best match: BeautifulSoup 3.0.5
Downloading http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/download/BeautifulSoup-
3.0.5.tar.gz
Processing BeautifulSoup-3.0.5.tar.gz
Running BeautifulSoup-3.0.5\setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir c:\docume~1\larry\l
ocals~1\temp\easy_install-cfdxna\BeautifulSoup-3.0.5\egg-dist-tmp-gbrpp5
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python25\Scripts\easy_install-script.py", line 8, in <module>
load_entry_point('setuptools==0.6c8', 'console_scripts', 'easy_install')()
File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c8-py2.5.egg\setuptools\comm
and\easy_install.py", line 1671, in main
File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c8-py2.5.egg\setuptools\comm
and\easy_install.py", line 1659, in with_ei_usage
File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c8-py2.5.egg\setuptools\comm
and\easy_install.py", line 1675, in <lambda>
File "C:\Python25\lib\distutils\core.py", line 151, in setup
dist.run_commands()
File "C:\Python25\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 974, in run_commands
self.run_command(cmd)
File "C:\Python25\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 994, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c8-py2.5.egg\setuptools\comm
and\easy_install.py", line 211, in run
File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c8-py2.5.egg\setuptools\comm
and\easy_install.py", line 446, in easy_install
File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c8-py2.5.egg\setuptools\comm
and\easy_install.py", line 476, in install_item
File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c8-py2.5.egg\setuptools\comm
and\easy_install.py", line 655, in install_eggs
File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c8-py2.5.egg\setuptools\comm
and\easy_install.py", line 930, in build_and_install
File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c8-py2.5.egg\setuptools\comm
and\easy_install.py", line 919, in run_setup
File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c8-py2.5.egg\setuptools\sand
box.py", line 27, in run_setup
File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c8-py2.5.egg\setuptools\sand
box.py", line 63, in run
File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c8-py2.5.egg\setuptools\sand
box.py", line 29, in <lambda>
File "C:\VOL1\Larry\Websafe\Python\wstools\setup.py", line 2, in <module>
import py2exe
File "C:\VOL1\Larry\Websafe\Python\wstools\unittest.py", line 3, in <module>
class TextCtrlTest(unittest.TestCase):
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'TestCase'
Thanks in advance for any "clues".
-Larry
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