How to install beautiful soup 4 with python 2 7 on windows

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I have windows vista with Python 2 7  I would like to install BeautifulSoup 4 but apparently I can t install Beautiful Soup just by copying the file into the site-packages directory  I have to install pip and then run some commands from the command prompt  Could you guide me through that step by step  I am really a noob so make it very simple  Thanks in advance

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easy install BeautifulSoup4   or   easy install BeautifulSoup    to install easy install   http   pypi python org pypi setuptools files

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I feel most people have pip installed already with Python  On Windows  one way to check for pip is to open Command Prompt and typing in   python -m pip   If you get Usage and Commands instructions then you have it installed  If python was not found though  then it needs to be added to the path  Alternatively you can run the same command from within the installation directory of python   If all is good  then this command will install BeautifulSoup easily   python -m pip install BeautifulSoup4   Screenshot     N  now I see I need to upgrade my pip  which I just did

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You don t need pip for installing Beautiful Soup - you can just download it and run python setup py install from the directory that you have unzipped BeautifulSoup in  assuming that you have added Python to your system PATH - if you haven t and you don t want to you can run C  Path To Python27 python  C  Path To BeautifulSoup setup py  install   However  you really should install pip - see How to install pip on Windows for how to do that best  via  MartijnPieters comment

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Install pip   Download get-pip  Remember to save it as  get-pip py   Now go to the download folder  Right click on get-pip py then open with python exe   You can add system variable by   by doing this you can use pip and easy install without specifying path   1 Clicking on Properties of My Computer  2 Then chose Advanced System Settings  3 Click on Advanced Tab  4 Click on Environment Variables   5 From System Variables     select variable path    6 Click edit then add the following lines at the end of it         c  Python27 c  Python27 Scripts    please dont copy this  just go to your python directory and copy the paths similar to this   NB - you have to do this once only   Install beautifulsoup4  Open cmd and type  pip install beautifulsoup4

[python] How to install beautiful soup 4 with python 2.7 on windows

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