Python on Windows

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On Oct 19, 6:24 pm, graham <grah... at tectime.com> wrote:
> On 16/10/2012 12:29, graham wrote:
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> > Downloaded and installed Python 2.7.3 for windows (an XP machine).
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> > Entered the Python interactive interpreter/command line and typed the
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> >      >>>import feedparser
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> > and I get the error message "No module named feedparser".
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> > There is a feedparser.py file lurking around - so I suppose Python
> > cannot find it.
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> > Anyone: What to do?
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> > GC
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> Thanks to everyone who replied.
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> Python was installed in the subdirectory C:\Python27 with the file
> feedparser.py residing in C:\Python27\Lib\email.
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> Setting the Windows environment variable (which did not previously
> exist) to C:\Python27\Lib\email allowed me to import feedparser
> successfully.
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> However, it seems that this feedparser module is not the module I wanted.
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> I'm trying to follow an introductory Python course from the magazine
> Linux Format (issue number 120 I think). The article includes the
> following lines:
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> >>> import feedparser
> >>> url = “http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=UKXX0637&u=c”
> >>> data = feedparser.parse(url)
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> This is fine using Ubuntu (after installing the feedparser package) but
> now, running XP I get
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> >>> data = feedparser.parse(url)
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> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'parse'
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> So there seems to be at least 2 feedparser modules - the one I have does
> not include "parse". How can I identify the correct one? How do I
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> This is all confusing and frustrating.
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> Some searching suggests I need the 'universal feed parser' code. I can
> find documentation for this but no code/module file. Is it available
> only for Unix-like OS's?
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> GC

Just try taking your ubuntu's /usr/share/pyshare/feedparser.py onto
your windows box??
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