Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.
Dear Programmers, I downloaded Peazip, which doesn't remove file/ folder hierarchy. I unzipped it and input the same code to the console and it installed Beautiful Soup 4 okay re:- - Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601] Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Users\Intel Atomcd c:\Beautiful Soup c:\Beautiful Soupc:\Python27\python setup.py install running install running build running build_py creating build creating build\lib creating build\lib\bs4 copying bs4\dammit.py - build\lib\bs4 copying bs4\element.py - build\lib\bs4 copying bs4\testing.py - build\lib\bs4 copying bs4\__init__.py - build\lib\bs4 creating build\lib\bs4\builder copying bs4\builder\_html5lib.py - build\lib\bs4\builder copying bs4\builder\_htmlparser.py - build\lib\bs4\builder copying bs4\builder\_lxml.py - build\lib\bs4\builder copying bs4\builder\__init__.py - build\lib\bs4\builder creating build\lib\bs4\tests copying bs4\tests\test_builder_registry.py - build\lib\bs4\tests copying bs4\tests\test_docs.py - build\lib\bs4\tests copying bs4\tests\test_html5lib.py - build\lib\bs4\tests copying bs4\tests\test_htmlparser.py - build\lib\bs4\tests copying bs4\tests\test_lxml.py - build\lib\bs4\tests copying bs4\tests\test_soup.py - build\lib\bs4\tests copying bs4\tests\test_tree.py - build\lib\bs4\tests copying bs4\tests\__init__.py - build\lib\bs4\tests running install_lib creating c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\bs4 creating c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\bs4\builder copying build\lib\bs4\builder\_html5lib.py - c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\bs4\ builder copying build\lib\bs4\builder\_htmlparser.py - c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\bs 4\builder copying build\lib\bs4\builder\_lxml.py - c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\bs4\buil der copying build\lib\bs4\builder\__init__.py - c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\bs4\b uilder copying build\lib\bs4\dammit.py - c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\bs4 copying build\lib\bs4\element.py - c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\bs4 copying build\lib\bs4\testing.py - c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\bs4 creating c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\bs4\tests copying build\lib\bs4\tests\test_builder_registry.py - c:\Python27\Lib\site-pac kages\bs4\tests copying build\lib\bs4\tests\test_docs.py - c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\bs4\te sts copying build\lib\bs4\tests\test_html5lib.py - c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\bs 4\tests copying build\lib\bs4\tests\test_htmlparser.py - c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\ bs4\tests copying build\lib\bs4\tests\test_lxml.py - c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\bs4\te sts copying build\lib\bs4\tests\test_soup.py - c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\bs4\te sts copying build\lib\bs4\tests\test_tree.py - c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\bs4\te sts copying build\lib\bs4\tests\__init__.py - c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\bs4\tes ts copying build\lib\bs4\__init__.py - c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\bs4 byte-compiling c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\bs4\builder\_html5lib.py to _html5l ib.pyc byte-compiling c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\bs4\builder\_htmlparser.py to _html parser.pyc byte-compiling c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\bs4\builder\_lxml.py to _lxml.pyc byte-compiling c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\bs4\builder\__init__.py to __init__ .pyc byte-compiling c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\bs4\dammit.py to dammit.pyc byte-compiling c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\bs4\element.py to element.pyc byte-compiling c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\bs4\testing.py to testing.pyc byte-compiling c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\bs4\tests\test_builder_registry.py to test_builder_registry.pyc byte-compiling c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\bs4\tests\test_docs.py to test_docs .pyc byte-compiling c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\bs4\tests\test_html5lib.py to test_ html5lib.pyc byte-compiling c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\bs4\tests\test_htmlparser.py to tes t_htmlparser.pyc byte-compiling c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\bs4\tests\test_lxml.py to test_lxml .pyc byte-compiling c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\bs4\tests\test_soup.py to test_soup .pyc byte-compiling c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\bs4\tests\test_tree.py to test_tree .pyc byte-compiling c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\bs4\tests\__init__.py to __init__.p yc byte-compiling c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\bs4\__init__.py to __init__.pyc running install_egg_info Writing c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\beautifulsoup4-4.1.0-py2.7.egg-info c:\Beautiful Soup Thank you for your thoughtful help, I am sure I will be needing more though, in the not too distant future. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.
Dear Programmers, As anticipated, it has not been to long before I have encountered further 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 sure, but both seem to be resistant to it. I quote the response to the code below, the code input being :- helloworld = pHello World/p soup_string = BeautifulSoup(helloworld) to Windows Command prompt this gives :- -- SyntaxError: invalid syntax helloworld = pHelloWorld/p soup_string = BeautifulSoup(helloworld) Traceback (most recent call last): File stdin, line 1, in module NameError: name 'BeautifulSoup' is not defined -- I have been told by one of the programmers, that I ought be inputting this to the Python command prompt (the book doesn't spacify), but that doesn't take either re:- -- helloworld = pHelloWorld/p soup_string = BeautifulSoup(helloworld) Traceback (most recent call last): File stdin, line 1, in module NameError: name 'BeautifulSoup' is not defined -- Looking at the bottom of page 16, there is more code for the inputting of, that again does not take to the Windows Command Prompt or the Python command prompt, re: import urllib2 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup url = http://www.packtpub.com/books; page = urllib2.urlopen(url) soup_packtpage = BeautifulSoup(page) returns to the Windows Command prompt:- -- import urllib2 Traceback (most recent call last): File stdin, line1, in module ImportError: No module named 'urllib2' -- returns to the Python command prompt :- -- import urllib2 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup url = http://www.packtpub.com/books; page = urllib2.urlopen(url) Traceback (most recent call last): File C\Python27\lib\urllib2.py,line 127, in urlopen return_opener.open(url, data, timeout) File C:\Python27\lib\urllib2.py,line 410, in open response = meth(req, response) File C:\Pyton27\lib\urllib2.py, oine 523, in http_response 'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs) FileC:\Python27\lib\urllib2.py, line 448, in error return self._call_chain(*args) File C:/Python27/lib/urllib2.py,line 382, in _call_chain result = func(*args) File C:\Python27\lib\urllib2.py, line 531, in http_error_default raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, masg, hdrs, fp) urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden - Anway I hope you can tell me what is amiss, there is no point in my proceeding with the book (about 111 pages all told) until I find out why it won't take. I realise I have been told to learn python in order to make things less painful, but I don't see why code written in the book does not take. Thank you for reading. I thought I might as well include, so's you might be able to see where things are going astray. The Windows command prompt :- -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.
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. 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 sure, but both seem to be resistant to it. I quote the response to the code below, the code input being :- helloworld = pHello World/p soup_string = BeautifulSoup(helloworld) to Windows Command prompt this gives :- -- SyntaxError: invalid syntax helloworld = pHelloWorld/p soup_string = BeautifulSoup(helloworld) Traceback (most recent call last): File stdin, line 1, in module NameError: name 'BeautifulSoup' is not defined -- I have been told by one of the programmers, that I ought be inputting this to the Python command prompt (the book doesn't spacify), but that doesn't take either re:- -- helloworld = pHelloWorld/p soup_string = BeautifulSoup(helloworld) Traceback (most recent call last): File stdin, line 1, in module NameError: name 'BeautifulSoup' is not defined -- Looking at the bottom of page 16, there is more code for the inputting of, that again does not take to the Windows Command Prompt or the Python command prompt, re: import urllib2 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup url = http://www.packtpub.com/books; page = urllib2.urlopen(url) soup_packtpage = BeautifulSoup(page) returns to the Windows Command prompt:- -- import urllib2 Traceback (most recent call last): File stdin, line1, in module ImportError: No module named 'urllib2' -- returns to the Python command prompt :- -- import urllib2 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup url = http://www.packtpub.com/books; page = urllib2.urlopen(url) Traceback (most recent call last): File C\Python27\lib\urllib2.py,line 127, in urlopen return_opener.open(url, data, timeout) File C:\Python27\lib\urllib2.py,line 410, in open response = meth(req, response) File C:\Python27\lib\urllib2.py, oine 523, in http_response 'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs) FileC:\Python27\lib\urllib2.py, line 448, in error return self._call_chain(*args) File C:/Python27/lib/urllib2.py,line 382, in _call_chain result = func(*args) File C:\Python27\lib\urllib2.py, line 531, in http_error_default raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, masg, hdrs, fp) urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden - Anway I hope you can tell me what is amiss, there is no point in my proceeding with the book (about 111 pages all told) until I find out why it won't take. I realise I have been told to learn python in order to make things less painful, but I don't see why code written in the book does not take. Thank you for reading. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.
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 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.
On Thursday, May 15, 2014 4:55:42 PM UTC+5:30, Simon Evans wrote: Dear Programmers, As anticipated, it has not been to long before I have encountered further 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 sure, but both seem to be resistant to it. I quote the response to the code below, It was because I thought I saw such a mixup in your earlier posts that I suggested you start with the python tutorial :-) Looking at the bottom of page 16, there is more code for the inputting of, that again does not take to the Windows Command Prompt or the Python command prompt, re: import urllib2 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup You probably need the above line And you need to preceded the other lines at the python (not shell) prompt On the whole it may be a good idea to put aside the book and just follow the quick start http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/#quick-start at the python prompt url = http://www.packtpub.com/books; page = urllib2.urlopen(url) soup_packtpage = BeautifulSoup(page) returns to the Windows Command prompt:- -- import urllib2 Traceback (most recent call last): File stdin, line1, in module ImportError: No module named 'urllib2' -- returns to the Python command prompt :- -- import urllib2 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup url = http://www.packtpub.com/books; page = urllib2.urlopen(url) Traceback (most recent call last): File C\Python27\lib\urllib2.py,line 127, in urlopen return_opener.open(url, data, timeout) File C:\Python27\lib\urllib2.py,line 410, in open response = meth(req, response) File C:\Pyton27\lib\urllib2.py, oine 523, in http_response 'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs) FileC:\Python27\lib\urllib2.py, line 448, in error return self._call_chain(*args) File C:/Python27/lib/urllib2.py,line 382, in _call_chain result = func(*args) File C:\Python27\lib\urllib2.py, line 531, in http_error_default raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, masg, hdrs, fp) urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden - Anway I hope you can tell me what is amiss, there is no point in my proceeding with the book (about 111 pages all told) until I find out why it won't take. I realise I have been told to learn python in order to make things less painful, but I don't see why code written in the book does not take. Thank you for reading. I thought I might as well include, so's you might be able to see where things are going astray. The Windows command prompt :- -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.
I downloaded the get-pip.py file. I installed it to the same folder on my C drive as the Beautiful Soup one in which the Beautiful Soup 4 downloads was unzipped to. I changed directory to the folder on the Command Prompt, as you instructed in step 2. I input the code to the console you gave on step 3), that returned some code, as quoted below. I then input the code you gave on step 4) but Console seems to reject or not recognise 'pip' as a term. I am sure quoting the actual prompt response can explain things better than I : --- Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601] Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Users\Intel Atomcd c:\Beautiful Soup c:\Beautiful Souppython get-pip.py Downloading/unpacking pip from https://pypi.python.org/packages/py2.py3/p/pip/pi p-1.5.5-py2.py3-none-any.whl#md5=03a932d6f82a3887d8de1cdb837c87ed Installing collected packages: pip Found existing installation: pip 1.5.4 Uninstalling pip: Successfully uninstalled pip Successfully installed pip Cleaning up... c:\Beautiful Souppip install beautifulsoup4 'pip' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. c:\Beautiful Soup Perhaps I oughtn't have downloaded the pip file to the same directory as the Beautiful Soup ? I will have a try at transferring the file to another folder and running the code you gave again. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.
I have input the above code by copy and pasting to the Idle python console, as the python 2.7 command prompt is fussy about the indentation on the eleventh line down, if I then indent it, it replies that the indentation is unnecessary of unexpected, and if I don't it says an indentation is expected. However when I get to the next lines of code - in the Idle prompt re: C:\Users\Intel Atomcd c:\Beautiful Soup c:\Beautiful Soupc:\Python27\python setup.py install Again it does not recognise 'bs4'. I think having used 'Just unzip it' instead of 'WinZip' may have caused this problem, in the first place ,as when I looked at the WinZip version at a local net café, it did have a folder hierarchy, however I wanted, and still want to skimp the £25 fee for WinZip, which nowadays you can't seem to be able to do. I never asked for the darn files to be zipped, so why ought I pay to have them unzipped, being my contention. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Simon Evans musicalhack...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: c:\Beautiful Souppip install beautifulsoup4 'pip' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. c:\Beautiful Soup Perhaps I oughtn't have downloaded the pip file to the same directory as the Beautiful Soup ? I will have a try at transferring the file to another folder and running the code you gave again. No, sounds like a path environment variable issue. The python executable is on your path, but the pip executable is not. The get-pip.py script should have installed it into C:\Python27\Scripts, I think, so either add that directory to your path (you can find instructions for this on the web) or just cd to that directory and run the pip command from there. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Simon Evans Again it does not recognise 'bs4'. I think having used 'Just unzip it' instead of 'WinZip' may have caused this problem, in the first place ,as when I looked at the WinZip version at a local net café, it did have a folder hierarchy, however I wanted, and still want to skimp the £25 fee for WinZip, which nowadays you can't seem to be able to do. I never asked for the darn files to be zipped, so why ought I pay to have them unzipped, being my contention. I use 7-zip (www.7-zip.org), which is freely distributed and open source. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 5:33 AM, Ian Kelly ian.g.ke...@gmail.com wrote: I use 7-zip (www.7-zip.org), which is freely distributed and open source. You beat me to the punch. :) Was about to say the exact same thing, so instead I'll second your recommendation. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.
I have removed the original Beautiful Soup 4 download, that I had unzipped to my Beautiful Soup directory on the C drive. I downloaded the latest version of Beautiful Soup 4 from the Crummy site. I unzipped it, and removed the contents of the unzipped directory and placed contents in my Beautiful Soup directory, and again had the same output to my console re: Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601] Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Users\Intel Atomcd c:\Beautiful Soup c:\Beautiful Soupc:\Python27\python setup.py install c:\Beautiful Soup --- I have made a note of all the contents of the downloaded and unzipped BS4,ie the contents of my Beautiful Soup folder on the C drive, which is as follows: --- running install running build running build_py error: package directory 'bs4' does not existinit _html5lib _htmlparser _lxml 6.1 AUTHORS conf COPYING dammit demonstration_markup element index.rst Makefile NEWS PGK-INFO README setup test_builder_registry test_docs test_html5lib test_htmlparser text_lxml test_soup test_tree testing TODO 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. I am only following instructions as suggested. I do not understand why it is not working. I hope someone can direct me in the right direction, as I seem to be stuck, and I don't think it has much bearing on my fluency or lack of it with Python. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.
Dear Ian, and other programmers, thank you for your advice. I am resending the last message because this twattish cut and paste facility on my computer has a knack of chopping off ones original message, I will try to convey the right message this time : I have removed the original Beautiful Soup 4 download, that I had unzipped to my Beautiful Soup directory on the C drive. I downloaded the latest version of Beautiful Soup 4 from the Crummy site. I unzipped it, and removed the contents of the unzipped directory and placed contents in my Beautiful Soup directory, and again had the same output to my console re: Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601] Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Users\Intel Atomcd c:\Beautiful Soup c:\Beautiful Soupc:\Python27\python setup.py install running install running build running build_py error: package directory 'bs4' does not exist c:\Beautiful Soup --- I have made a note of all the contents of the downloaded and unzipped BS4,ie the contents of my Beautiful Soup folder on the C drive, which is as follows: --- running install running build running build_py error: package directory 'bs4' does not existinit _html5lib _htmlparser _lxml 6.1 AUTHORS conf COPYING dammit demonstration_markup element index.rst Makefile NEWS PGK-INFO README setup test_builder_registry test_docs test_html5lib test_htmlparser text_lxml test_soup test_tree testing TODO 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. I am only following instructions as suggested. I do not understand why it is not working. I hope someone can direct me in the right direction, as I seem to be stuck, and I don't think it has much bearing on my fluency or lack of it with Python. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.
On 13/05/2014 12:59, Simon Evans wrote: I suggest that you follow the instructions here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4750806/how-to-install-pip-on-windows to get pip, then let pip do the work for you as that's what it's designed for :) -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.
On 2014-05-13 12:59, Simon Evans wrote: Dear Ian, and other programmers, thank you for your advice. I am resending the last message because this twattish cut and paste facility on my computer has a knack of chopping off ones original message, I will try to convey the right message this time : I have removed the original Beautiful Soup 4 download, that I had unzipped to my Beautiful Soup directory on the C drive. I downloaded the latest version of Beautiful Soup 4 from the Crummy site. I unzipped it, and removed the contents of the unzipped directory and placed contents in my Beautiful Soup directory, and again had the same output to my console re: Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601] Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Users\Intel Atomcd c:\Beautiful Soup c:\Beautiful Soupc:\Python27\python setup.py install running install running build running build_py error: package directory 'bs4' does not exist c:\Beautiful Soup --- I have made a note of all the contents of the downloaded and unzipped BS4,ie the contents of my Beautiful Soup folder on the C drive, which is as follows: --- running install running build running build_py error: package directory 'bs4' does not existinit _html5lib _htmlparser _lxml 6.1 AUTHORS conf COPYING dammit demonstration_markup element index.rst Makefile NEWS PGK-INFO README setup test_builder_registry test_docs test_html5lib test_htmlparser text_lxml test_soup test_tree testing TODO 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. I am only following instructions as suggested. I do not understand why it is not working. I hope someone can direct me in the right direction, as I seem to be stuck, and I don't think it has much bearing on my fluency or lack of it with Python. I think I see your problem: you've unpacked everything into a single folder instead of a folder hierarchy. (It also looks like you have Explorer configured to hide the file extensions. That's generally _not_ recommended.) Try this: #! python3.4 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- from os.path import splitext import gzip import tarfile # The path of the downloaded file. tar_gz_path = r'C:\beautifulsoup4-4.3.2.tar.gz' # Unpack the .tar.gz file to a .tar file. tar_path, ext = splitext(tar_gz_path) with gzip.open(tar_gz_path, 'rb') as from_file: with open(tar_path, 'wb') as to_file: chunk = from_file.read() to_file.write(chunk) # Unpack the .tar file to a folder. folder, ext = splitext(tar_path) tar = tarfile.open(tar_path) tar.extractall(folder) tar.close() -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 5:59 AM, Simon Evans musicalhack...@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! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.
On 13/05/2014 17:33, Ian Kelly wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 5:59 AM, Simon Evans musicalhack...@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. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.
Hi Ian, thank you for your help. Yes that is the book by Vineeth J Nair. At the top of page 12, at step 1 it says : 1.Download the latest tarball from https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/b/beautifulsoup4/. So yes, the version the book is dealing with is beautiful soup 4. I am using Pyhon 2.7, I have removed Python 3.4. Also on the bottom of page 10, Mr Nair states: Pick the path variagble and add the following section to the Path variable: ;C:\PythonXY for example C:\Python27 Which tells me that the Python version cited in the book must be 2.7 I downloaded beautiful soup 4 last night. I unzipped it with 'Just unzip it' to a folder I called Beautiful Soup, the same as I did with the previous beautiful soup download. The console return is as below, showing that I am now facing the same conundrum as yesterday, before changing my version of Beautiful Soup. re: Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601] Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Users\Intel Atomcd c:\Beautiful Soup c:\Beautiful SoupBeautiful Soupc:\Python27\python setup.py install 'Beautiful' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. c:\Beautiful Soup -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.
The version of Python the book seems to be referring to is 2.7, re: bottom of page 10- 'Pick the Path variable and add the following section to the Path variable: ;C:\PythonXY for example C:\Python 27' The version of Beautiful Soup seems to be Beautiful Soup 4 as at the top of page 12 it states: '1.Download the latest tarball from https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/b/beautifulsoup4/.' I have downloaded and unzipped to a folder called 'Beautiful Soup' on the C drive the Beautiful Soup 4 version. I am using the Python 2.7 console and IDLE, I have removed the 3.4 version. All the same I seem to be having difficulties again as console wont accept the code it did when it was the previous version of BS that I used yesterday. I realise I would not be having this problem if I proceeded to input the 'Hello World' code on the Python console, but as said, the text never specifically said 'change to Python 2.7 console'. I thought the problem was with the BS version and so changed it, but now can't even get as far as I had before changing it. Anyhow be that as it may, this is the console response to my input: Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601] Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Users\Intel Atomcd c:\Beautiful Soup c:\Beautiful SoupBeautiful Soupc:\Python27\python setup.py install 'Beautiful' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. c:\Beautiful Soup -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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Thank you for your advice. I did buy a book on Python, 'Hello Python' but the code in it wouldn't run, so I returned it to the shop for a refund. I am going to visit the local library to see if they have any books on Python. I am familiar with Java and Pascal, and looking at a few You tubes on the subject, thought it was not much different, and shares many of the oop concepts (variables, initializing, expressions, methods, and so on, but I realize there is no point in walking backwards in new territory. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.
Dear Ian, The book does recommend to use Python 2.7 (see bottom line of page 10). The book also recommends to use Beautiful Soup 4. You are right that in that I have placed the unzipped BS4 folder within a folder, and I therefore removed the contents of the inner folder and transferred them to the outer folder. The console now can access the contents of the Beautiful Soup folder, but it is still having problems with it as the last output to my console demonstrates : Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601] Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Users\Intel Atomcd c:\Beautiful Soup c:\Beautiful Soupc:\Python27\python setup.py install running install running build running build_py error: package directory 'bs4' does not exist c:\Beautiful Soup -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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I did download the latest version of Beautiful Soup 4 from the download site, as the book suggested. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Simon Evans musicalhack...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Dear Ian, The book does recommend to use Python 2.7 (see bottom line of page 10). The book also recommends to use Beautiful Soup 4. You are right that in that I have placed the unzipped BS4 folder within a folder, and I therefore removed the contents of the inner folder and transferred them to the outer folder. The console now can access the contents of the Beautiful Soup folder, but it is still having problems with it as the last output to my console demonstrates : Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601] Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Users\Intel Atomcd c:\Beautiful Soup c:\Beautiful Soupc:\Python27\python setup.py install running install running build running build_py error: package directory 'bs4' does not exist In the same folder where setup.py is, there should be a bs4 folder. You might want to just wipe your Beautiful Soup directory and do a clean unzip. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.
Thank you everyone who replied, for your help. Using the command prompt console, it accepts the first line of code, but doesn't seem to accept the second line. I have altered it a little, but it is not having any of it, I quote my console input and output here, as it can probably explain things better than I :- Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601] Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Users\Intel Atomcdc:\Beautiful Soup The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. C:\Users\Intel Atomcd c:\Beautiful Soup c:\Beautiful Souppython setup.py install. File setup.py, line 22 print Unit tests have failed! ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax c:\Beautiful Souppython setup.py install File setup.py, line 22 print Unit tests have failed! ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax c:\Beautiful Soup I have tried writing python setup.py install ie putting the statement in inverted commas, but the console still seems to reject it re:- c:\Beautiful Souppython setup. py install 'python setup. py install' is not recognized as an internal or external comman d, operable program or batch file. c:\Beautiful Soup Again I hope you python practitioners can help. I am only on page 12, and have another 99 pages to go, so can only hope it gets easier. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 5:05 AM, Simon Evans musicalhack...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Thank you everyone who replied, for your help. Using the command prompt console, it accepts the first line of code, but doesn't seem to accept the second line. I have altered it a little, but it is not having any of it, I quote my console input and output here, as it can probably explain things better than I :- Thank you. This sort of transcript does make it very easy to see what's going on! Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601] Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Users\Intel Atomcdc:\Beautiful Soup The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. Command line syntax is always to put a command first (one word), and then its arguments (zero, one, or more words). You put quotes around a logical word when it has spaces in it. So, for instance, foo bar is one logical word. In this case, you omitted the space between the command and its argument, so Windows couldn't handle it. [1] C:\Users\Intel Atomcd c:\Beautiful Soup And this is correct; you put quotes around the argument, and execute the cd command with an argument of c:\Beautiful Soup. It then works, as is shown by the change of prompt in your subsequent lines. c:\Beautiful Souppython setup.py install. 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.) Hope that helps! ChrisA [1] Windows lets you be a bit sloppy; for instance, cd\ works without a space between the command and the argument. (AFAIK this is true if and only if the path name starts with a backslash.) But normally, you separate command and argument(s) with a space. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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Dear Chris Angelico, Yes, you are right, I did install Python 3.4 as well as 2.7. I have removed Python 3.4, and input the code you suggested and it looks like it has installed properly, returning the following code:- Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601] Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Users\Intel Atomcd c:\Beautiful Soup c:\Beautiful Soupc:\Python27\python setup.py install running install running build running build_py creating build creating build\lib copying BeautifulSoup.py - build\lib copying BeautifulSoupTests.py - build\lib running install_lib copying build\lib\BeautifulSoup.py - c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages copying build\lib\BeautifulSoupTests.py - c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages byte-compiling c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\BeautifulSoup.py to BeautifulSoup.p yc byte-compiling c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\BeautifulSoupTests.py to BeautifulS oupTests.pyc running install_egg_info Writing c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\BeautifulSoup-3.2.1-py2.7.egg-info c:\Beautiful Soup Would that things were as straightforward as they are in the books, but anyway thank you much for your assistance, I'd still be typing the zillionth variation on the first line without your help. I don't doubt though that I will be coming unstuck in the not distant future. Until then, again thank you for your selfless help. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.
On 2014-05-11 21:03, Simon Evans wrote: Dear Chris Angelico, Yes, you are right, I did install Python 3.4 as well as 2.7. I have removed Python 3.4, and input the code you suggested and it looks like it has installed properly, returning the following code:- Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601] Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Users\Intel Atomcd c:\Beautiful Soup c:\Beautiful Soupc:\Python27\python setup.py install running install running build running build_py creating build creating build\lib copying BeautifulSoup.py - build\lib copying BeautifulSoupTests.py - build\lib running install_lib copying build\lib\BeautifulSoup.py - c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages copying build\lib\BeautifulSoupTests.py - c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages byte-compiling c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\BeautifulSoup.py to BeautifulSoup.p yc byte-compiling c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\BeautifulSoupTests.py to BeautifulS oupTests.pyc running install_egg_info Writing c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\BeautifulSoup-3.2.1-py2.7.egg-info c:\Beautiful Soup Would that things were as straightforward as they are in the books, but anyway thank you much for your assistance, I'd still be typing the zillionth variation on the first line without your help. I don't doubt though that I will be coming unstuck in the not distant future. Until then, again thank you for your selfless help. You didn't need to remove Python 3.4. When you typed: python setup.py install it defaulted to Python 3.4, presumably because that was the last one you installed. You just needed to be explicit instead: C:\Python27\python.exe setup.py install -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.
On 5/11/2014 3:17 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 5:05 AM, Simon Evans musicalhack...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: c:\Beautiful Souppython 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\Python34pip 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... --- 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' -- Terry Jan Reedy -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.
I have downloaded Beautiful Soup 3, I am using Python 2.7. I understand from your message that I ought to use Python 2.6 or Python 3.4 with Beautiful Soup 4, the book I am using 'Getting Started with Beautiful Soup' is for Beautiful Soup 4. Therefore I gather I must re-download Beautiful Soup and get the 4 version, dispose of my Python 2.7 and reinstall Python 3.4. I am sure I can do this, but doesn't the above information suggest that the only Python grade left that might work with Beautiful Soup 3 would by Python 2.7 - which is the configuration I have at present, though I am not perfectly happy, as it is not taking code in the book (meant for BS4) such as the following on page 16 : helloworld = pHello World/p re:- c:\Beautiful Souphelloworld = pHello World/p 'helloworld' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. I take it that this response is due to using code meant for BS4 with Python 2.6/ 3.4, rather than BS3 with Python 2.7 which is what I am currently using. If so I will change the configurations. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.
On 2014-05-11 23:03, Simon Evans wrote: I have downloaded Beautiful Soup 3, I am using Python 2.7. I understand from your message that I ought to use Python 2.6 or Python 3.4 with Beautiful Soup 4, the book I am using 'Getting Started with Beautiful Soup' is for Beautiful Soup 4. Therefore I gather I must re-download Beautiful Soup and get the 4 version, dispose of my Python 2.7 and reinstall Python 3.4. I am sure I can do this, but doesn't the above information suggest that the only Python grade left that might work with Beautiful Soup 3 would by Python 2.7 - which is the configuration I have at present, though I am not perfectly happy, as it is not taking code in the book (meant for BS4) such as the following on page 16 : helloworld = pHello World/p re:- c:\Beautiful Souphelloworld = pHello World/p 'helloworld' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. I take it that this response is due to using code meant for BS4 with Python 2.6/ 3.4, rather than BS3 with Python 2.7 which is what I am currently using. If so I will change the configurations. That's the Windows command prompt, not the Python command prompt. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.
Yeah well at no point does the book say to start inputting the code mentioned in Python command prompt rather than the Windows command prompt, but thank you for your guidance anyway. I have downloaded the latest version of Beautiful Soup 4, but am again facing problems with the second line of code, re:- --- Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601] Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Users\Intel Atomcd c:\Beautiful Soup c:\Beautiful Soupc:\Python27\python setup.py install c:\Python27\python: can't open file 'setup.py': [Errno 2] No such file or direct ory though that was the code I used before which installed okay see above). Can anyone tell me where I am going wrong ? Thanks. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.
On Monday, May 12, 2014 12:19:24 AM UTC+1, Simon Evans wrote: Yeah well at no point does the book say to start inputting the code mentioned in Python command prompt rather than the Windows command prompt, but thank you for your guidance anyway. I have downloaded the latest version of Beautiful Soup 4, but am again facing problems with the second line of code, re:- --- Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601] Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Users\Intel Atomcd c:\Beautiful Soup c:\Beautiful Soupc:\Python27\python setup.py install c:\Python27\python: can't open file 'setup.py': [Errno 2] No such file or direct ory though that was the code I used before which installed okay see above). Can anyone tell me where I am going wrong ? Thanks. Oh I think I see - I should be using Python 3.4 now, with BS4 ? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.
- but wait a moment 'BeautifulSoup4 works with 2.6+ and 3.x'(Terry Reedy) - doesn't 2.6 + = 2.7, which is what I'm using with BeautifulSoup4. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Simon Evans musicalhack...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Yeah well at no point does the book say to start inputting the code mentioned in Python command prompt rather than the Windows command prompt, but thank you for your guidance anyway. I have downloaded the latest version of Beautiful Soup 4, but am again facing problems with the second line of code, re:- --- Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601] Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Users\Intel Atomcd c:\Beautiful Soup c:\Beautiful Soupc:\Python27\python setup.py install c:\Python27\python: can't open file 'setup.py': [Errno 2] No such file or direct ory though that was the code I used before which installed okay see above). Can anyone tell me where I am going wrong ? Thanks. The error message is telling you that the file setup.py that you're trying to run is missing. That would seem to indicate that Beautiful Soup hasn't been downloaded or unzipped correctly. What do you have in the Beautiful Soup directory? Also, use Python 3.4 as Terry Reedy suggested, unless the book is using 2.7 in which case you should probably use the same version as the book. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.
On 5/11/2014 6:03 PM, Simon Evans wrote: I have downloaded Beautiful Soup 3, I am using Python 2.7. I understand from your message that I ought to use Python 2.6or Python 3.4 with Beautiful Soup 4, I wrote BeautifulSoup4 works with 2.6+ and 3.x.. '2.6+' means 2.6 or 2.7. '3.x' should mean 3.1 to 3.4 but the range might start later. It does not matter because you should download and use 3.4 unless you *really* need to use something earlier. But also note that Windows has no problem with multiple version of python installed in different pythonxy directories. One of the things 3.4 does for you is make sure that pip is installed. It is now the more or less 'official' python package installer. To install BS4, do what the authors recommend on their web page http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/ and what I did: 'pip install beautifulsoup4' in a python34 directory. It took me less than a minute, far less that it took you to report that doing something else did not work. -- Terry Jan Reedy -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Ian Kelly ian.g.ke...@gmail.com wrote: Also, use Python 3.4 as Terry Reedy suggested, unless the book is using 2.7 in which case you should probably use the same version as the book. Following up on that, if this is the book you are using: http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Started-Beautiful-Soup-Vineeth/dp/1783289554 then it says to use Python 2.7.5 or greater. There is no indication that the book is targeted at Python 3, and in fact I see at least one line that won't work in Python 3 (import urllib2), so I definitely recommend sticking with a 2.7 release. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 6:31 AM, Terry Reedy tjre...@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 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.
On Saturday, May 10, 2014 10:28:18 PM UTC+5:30, Simon Evans wrote: I am new to Python, but my main interest is to use it to Webscrape. I guess you've moved on from this specific problem. However here is some general advice: To use beautiful soup you need to use python. To use python you need to know python. Some people spend months on that, or weeks or days. Maybe you are clever and can reduce that to hours but not further :-) So start with this https://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/ or https://docs.python.org/3.4/tutorial/ [depending on which python you need] It may take a bit longer; but you will suffer less. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.
I am new to Python, but my main interest is to use it to Webscrape. I have downloaded Beautiful Soup, and have followed the instruction in the 'Getting Started with Beautiful Soup' book, but my Python installations keep returning errors, so I can't get started. I have unzipped Beautiful Soup to a folder of the same name on my C drive, in accordance with the first two steps of page 12 of the aforementioned publication, but proceeding to navigate to the program as in step three, re: Open up the command line prompt and navigate to the folder where you have unzipped the folder as follows: cd Beautiful Soup python setup python install This returns on my Python 27 : cd Beautiful Soup File stdin,line 1 cd Beautiful Soup ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax also I get: cd Beautiful Soup SyntaxError: invalid syntax to my IDLE Python 2.7 version, same goes for the Python 3.4 installations. Hope someone can help. Thanks in advance. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 2:58 AM, Simon Evans musicalhack...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Open up the command line prompt and navigate to the folder where you have unzipped the folder as follows: cd Beautiful Soup python setup python install This would be the operating system command line, not Python's interactive mode. Since you refer to a C drive, I'm going to assume Windows; you'll want to open up Command Prompt, or cmd.exe, or whatever name your version of Windows buries it under. (Microsoft does not make it particularly easy on you.) Since you have a space in the name, you'll need quotes: cd c:\Beautiful Soup Then proceed as per the instructions. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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On 5/10/2014 1:03 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 2:58 AM, Simon Evans musicalhack...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Open up the command line prompt and navigate to the folder where you have unzipped the folder as follows: cd Beautiful Soup python setup python install This would be the operating system command line, not Python's interactive mode. Since you refer to a C drive, I'm going to assume Windows; you'll want to open up Command Prompt, or cmd.exe, or whatever name your version of Windows buries it under. (Microsoft does not make it particularly easy on you.) On the All Programs / Start menu, look under Accessories. I have it pinned to my Win 7 task bar. Since you have a space in the name, you'll need quotes: cd c:\Beautiful Soup Not for Win 7, at least C:\Users\Terrycd \program files C:\Program Files -- Terry Jan Reedy -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 4:39 AM, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote: Since you have a space in the name, you'll need quotes: cd c:\Beautiful Soup Not for Win 7, at least C:\Users\Terrycd \program files C:\Program Files Huh, good to know. Unfortunately, Windows leaves command-line parsing completely up to the individual command/application, so some will need quotes, some won't, and some will actually do very different things if you put an argument in quotes (look at START and FIND). There is a broad convention that spaces in file names get protected with quotes, though (for instance, tab completion will put quotes around them), so it's not complete chaos. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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On 05/10/2014 07:23 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: There is a broad convention that spaces in file names get protected with quotes, though (for instance, tab completion will put quotes around them), so it's not complete chaos. Complete chaos is a pretty good description, especially since MS decided to make the default directory paths for many things have embedded spaces in them. And to change the rules from version to version of the OS. And it's not just the cmd line that's inconsistent; some exec function variants liberally parse unquoted names looking for some file that happens to match the first few 'words of the string. I once debugged a customer problem (without actually seeing the machine), and told tech support to ask him if he had a file in the root directory called program.exe. I turned out to be right, and the customer was sure I must have hacked into his machine. There was a bug in our code (missing quotes), masked by the liberality of the function I mentioned, that wasn't visible till such a file existed. The customer symptom? Our code complained that the linker couldn't be found. -- DaveA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
