Install Beautiful Soup using pip
Question:
I am trying to install Beautiful Soup using pip
in Python 2.7. I keep getting an error message and can’t understand why.
I followed the instructions to install pip, which was installed to the following directory: c:Python27Scriptspip.exe
. Then I tried adding it to the path, and running the pip install package
command.
I tried it two different ways:
import sys
sys.path.append('C:\Python27\Scripts\pip.exe')
pip install beautifulsoup4
import sys
sys.path.append('C:\Python27\Scripts')
pip install beautifulsoup4
Both give me this error message:
>>> pip install beautifulsoup4
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
The shell is highlighting the word "install" and saying that it’s invalid syntax.
What’s going on?
Answers:
pip
is a command line tool, not Python syntax.
In other words, run the command in your console, not in the Python interpreter:
pip install beautifulsoup4
You may have to use the full path:
C:Python27Scriptspip install beautifulsoup4
or even
C:Python27Scriptspip.exe install beautifulsoup4
Windows will then execute the pip
program and that will use Python to install the package.
Another option is to use the Python -m
command-line switch to run the pip
module, which then operates exactly like the pip
command:
python -m pip install beautifulsoup4
or
python.exe -m pip install beautifulsoup4
The easy method that will work even in a corrupted setup environment is:
To download ez_setup.py and run it using the command line,
python ez_setup.py
Output
Extracting in c:uuuuappdatalocaltemptmpjxvil3
Now working in c:uuappdatalocaltemptmpjxvil3setuptools-5.6
Installing Setuptools
Run
pip install beautifulsoup4
Output
Downloading/unpacking beautifulsoup4
Running setup.py … egg_info for package
Installing collected packages: beautifulsoup4
Running setup.py install for beautifulsoup4
Successfully installed beautifulsoup4
Cleaning up…
Bam! Done.
If you have more than one version of Python installed, run the respective pip command.
For example, for Python 3.6 run the following
pip3.6 install beautifulsoup4
To check the available command/version of pip and python on Mac run
ls /usr/local/bin
import os
os.system("pip install beautifulsoup4")
or
import subprocess
exe = subprocess.Popen("pip install beautifulsoup4")
exe_out = exe.communicate()
print(exe_out)
I am trying to install Beautiful Soup using pip
in Python 2.7. I keep getting an error message and can’t understand why.
I followed the instructions to install pip, which was installed to the following directory: c:Python27Scriptspip.exe
. Then I tried adding it to the path, and running the pip install package
command.
I tried it two different ways:
import sys
sys.path.append('C:\Python27\Scripts\pip.exe')
pip install beautifulsoup4
import sys
sys.path.append('C:\Python27\Scripts')
pip install beautifulsoup4
Both give me this error message:
>>> pip install beautifulsoup4
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
The shell is highlighting the word "install" and saying that it’s invalid syntax.
What’s going on?
pip
is a command line tool, not Python syntax.
In other words, run the command in your console, not in the Python interpreter:
pip install beautifulsoup4
You may have to use the full path:
C:Python27Scriptspip install beautifulsoup4
or even
C:Python27Scriptspip.exe install beautifulsoup4
Windows will then execute the pip
program and that will use Python to install the package.
Another option is to use the Python -m
command-line switch to run the pip
module, which then operates exactly like the pip
command:
python -m pip install beautifulsoup4
or
python.exe -m pip install beautifulsoup4
The easy method that will work even in a corrupted setup environment is:
To download ez_setup.py and run it using the command line,
python ez_setup.py
Output
Extracting in c:uuuuappdatalocaltemptmpjxvil3
Now working in c:uuappdatalocaltemptmpjxvil3setuptools-5.6
Installing Setuptools
Run
pip install beautifulsoup4
Output
Downloading/unpacking beautifulsoup4
Running setup.py … egg_info for package
Installing collected packages: beautifulsoup4
Running setup.py install for beautifulsoup4
Successfully installed beautifulsoup4
Cleaning up…
Bam! Done.
If you have more than one version of Python installed, run the respective pip command.
For example, for Python 3.6 run the following
pip3.6 install beautifulsoup4
To check the available command/version of pip and python on Mac run
ls /usr/local/bin
import os
os.system("pip install beautifulsoup4")
or
import subprocess
exe = subprocess.Popen("pip install beautifulsoup4")
exe_out = exe.communicate()
print(exe_out)