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

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Sun May 11 21:40:30 EDT 2014


On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 6:31 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> 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:

Oh, I'm glad of that! But without digging into the details of BS, all
I could say for sure was that setup.py was expecting 2.x. :)

Sticking with 3.4 and upgrading to BS4 is a much better solution.

ChrisA



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