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

[Terry Reedy]

On 5/11/2014 3:17 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 5:05 AM, Simon Evans <musicalhacksaw at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>> c:\Beautiful Soup>python setup.py install.

There is no need for a standalone Beautiful Soup directory. See below.

>>    File "setup.py", line 22
>>      print "Unit tests have failed!"
>>                                    ^
>> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>
> This indicates that you've installed a 3.x version of Python as the
> default, and setup.py is expecting a 2.x Python. Do you have multiple
> Pythons installed? Try typing this:
>
> c:\Python27\python setup.py install
>
> (That will work only if you have Python 2.7 installed into the default
> location.)

Please do not advise people to unnecessarily downgrade to 2.7 ;-).
Simon just needs the proper current version of BeautifulSoup.
BeautifulSoup3 does not work with 3.x.
BeautifulSoup4 works with 2.6+ and 3.x.
http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
Installation (of the latest version on PyPI) is trivial with 3.4:

C:\Programs\Python34>pip install beautifulsoup4
Downloading/unpacking beautifulsoup4
   Running setup.py 
(path:C:\Users\Terry\AppData\Local\Temp\pip_build_Terry\beautifulsoup4\setup.py) 
egg_info for package
  beautifulsoup4

Installing collected packages: beautifulsoup4
   Running setup.py install for beautifulsoup4
     Skipping implicit fixer: buffer
     Skipping implicit fixer: idioms
     Skipping implicit fixer: set_literal
     Skipping implicit fixer: ws_comma

Successfully installed beautifulsoup4
Cleaning up...
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Adding the '4' is necessary as
 >pip install beautifulsoup tries to install beautifulsoup3 as a py3.4 
package and that fails with the SyntaxError message Simon got.

With '4', there is now an entry in lib/site-packages you are ready to go.

Python 3.4.0 (v3.4.0:04f714765c13, Mar 16 2014, 19:25:23) [MSC v.1600 64 
bit (AMD64)] on win32

 >>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup  # from the bs4 online doc
 >>> BeautifulSoup
<class 'bs4.BeautifulSoup'>

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Terry Jan Reedy