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

[Mark Lawrence]

On 13/05/2014 17:33, Ian Kelly wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 5:59 AM, Simon Evans <musicalhacksaw at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> I can see no bs4 folder within the contents.
>> I can not see any setup.py file either, but this is how I downloaded it.
>
> You do have a setup.py in there, but your Windows explorer is showing
> it to you without the .py extension.  Something unusual is happening
> with the download/extraction process though and you're missing the
> correct folder structure.  If you take a look here, you can see what
> you *should* have after unzipping:
>
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~leonardr/beautifulsoup/bs4/files
>
> This approach seems to be unproductive though, so I'm going to second
> Mark's suggestion to just use pip:
>
> 1) Go to pip-installer.org and download the single file get-pip.py
> 2) Open a command prompt and cd to the folder you downloaded that file into.
> 3) python get-pip.py
> 4) pip install beautifulsoup4
>
> And then you should finally be ready to get started.  Good luck!
>

To be fair Terry Reedy has suggested pip at least twice, I've just given 
another source of data on how to get pip in the first place.

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Mark Lawrence

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