Installing BeautifulSoup with easy_install (broken?)

[Larry Bates]

Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
> Larry Bates schrieb:
>> 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".
> 
> I'm not sure what happens - but I think it is suspicious that these 
> "wstools" get into the way. And it looks as if wstools.unittest imports 
> itself, instead of the python-unittest - which must be solved with 
> getting the sys.path fixed.
> 
> Diez

Sharp eyes Diez, I overlooked that.  This is a path that I search for some
tools I've written.  It is set in PYTHONPATH environment variable.  I cleared
PYTHONPATH and easy_install BeautifulSoup worked.  Still not quite clear why.

Thanks loads.

-Larry