How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Sat May 10 14:39:50 EDT 2014


On 5/10/2014 1:03 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 2:58 AM, Simon Evans <musicalhacksaw at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> "Open up the command line prompt and navigate to the folder where you have unzipped the folder as follows:
>> cd Beautiful Soup
>> python setup python install "
>
> This would be the operating system command line, not Python's
> interactive mode. Since you refer to a C drive, I'm going to assume
> Windows; you'll want to open up "Command Prompt", or cmd.exe, or
> whatever name your version of Windows buries it under. (Microsoft does
> not make it particularly easy on you.)

On the All Programs / Start menu, look under Accessories. I have it 
pinned to my Win 7 task bar.

 > Since you have a space in the name, you'll need quotes:
>
> cd "c:\Beautiful Soup"

Not for Win 7, at least

C:\Users\Terry>cd \program files

C:\Program Files>

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Terry Jan Reedy




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