[Tutor] trouble with beautiful soup

Danny Yoo dyoo at hashcollision.org
Thu Dec 24 17:01:04 EST 2015


> I have installed and unzipped etc. the latest file from www.crummy.com many times.
> If I click setup.py the command window appears only a fraction of a second.
> ??????

Ah, you're on Windows.  I missed this detail earlier.

Double-clicking setup.py isn't enough to install that module.  You
need to do something extra.  Here:

    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12324601/how-to-install-a-python-module-via-its-setup-py-in-windows


You want to run the following at the Windows command prompt:

    python setup.py install


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