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

[Dave Angel]

On 05/15/2014 07:30 AM, Simon Evans wrote:
> Dear Programmers, I noticed a couple of typos in my previous message, so have now altered them thus :-
>
> Dear Programmers,
> As anticipated, it has not been to long before I have encountered further
>
> difficulty.

Your first thread was about getting Beautiful Soup installed and 
working.  If you can successfully import it, you're ready for a new 
thread, new subject line, etc.

Note the new thread's opener should be self-contained, meaning you 
should mention the environment (version of BS, version of Python, 
version of what OS), and your difficulty.

 > At the top of page 16 of 'Getting Started with Beautiful Soup" it
 >
 > gives code to be input, whether to the Python or Windows command 
prompt I am not
 >


My guess is that the book is now describing what goes in a program, not 
at the "command prompts".  A program is typically written in a text 
file, not at the interpreter prompt, though experimentation is certainly 
done there.

Once you have a program in a text file (usually with the extension .py), 
you run it at the OS terminal prompt by typing:
      python  myprogram.py





-- 
DaveA