Installing BeautifulSoup with easy_install (broken?)

John Nagle nagle at animats.com
Fri Apr 18 12:40:41 EDT 2008


Larry Bates wrote:
> 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:

    easy_install usually seems to make things harder.

    BeautifulSoup is one single .py file. That's all you need.
Everything else is excess baggage.

					John Nagle
					SiteTruth



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