[python] install beautiful soup using pip

I am trying to install BeautifulSoup 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:\Python27\Scripts\pip.exe, then I tried adding it to the path, and running the pip install package command.

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.

I have no idea what's going on, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

This question is related to python python-2.7 beautifulsoup pip

The answer is


import os

os.system("pip install beautifulsoup4")

or

import subprocess

exe = subprocess.Popen("pip install beautifulsoup4")

exe_out = exe.communicate()

print(exe_out)

If you have more than one version of python installed, run the respective pip command.

For example for python3.6 run the following

pip3.6 install beautifulsoup4

To check the available command/version of pip and python on Mac run

ls /usr/local/bin

The easy method that will work even in corrupted setup environment is :

To download ez_setup.py and run it using command line

python ez_setup.py

output

Extracting in c:\uu\uu\appdata\local\temp\tmpjxvil3 Now working in c:\u\u\appdata\local\temp\tmpjxvil3\setuptools-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 ! |DoneĀ¬


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