I recently installed lxml.
Before that I had to install all the dependencies for that.
So I tried to install liblxml2-dev, liblxslt1-dev and python-dev
(google searched for what packages are required for lxml)
but even after that I could not able to install lxml by using the command
pip install lxml.
However as because I am using Python 3.4.0, I thought that may be there are different version of python-dev (thought came due to facing some similar version conflict problem). So I tried to install python3-dev.
Then I tried to install lxml using the same command said earlier and that worked!!!
As I am a newbie in this. So I google searched for those sentences
and I could able to understand the meaning of lxml and xslt. I found a link for python-dev but I am not still sure what it is actually doing.
Could anyone help :)
python-dev contains the header files you need to build Python extensions. lxml is a Python C-API extension that is compiled when you do pip install lxml. The lxml sources have at least something like #include <Python.h> in the code. The compiler looks for the Python.h file during compilation, hence those files need to be on your system such that they can be found.
On Linux typically, the binary libraries and header files of packages like python are separate. Hence you can have Python installed and everything works fine but when you want to build extensions you need to install the corresponding dev package.
python-dev is the package that contains the header files for the Python C API, which is used by lxml because it includes Python C extensions for high performance.
python-dev contains everything needed to compile python extension modules (https://docs.python.org/2/extending/extending.html).
Note that Debian already has an lxml package for python 3 (mentioned at http://lxml.de/installation.html); in general it's a good idea to use the packaged version. I'd suggest pip uninstall lxml and then apt-get install python3-lxml.
http://lxml.de/ will give all information about lxml. & for installing lxml i find https://pypi.python.org/pypi/lxml/3.4.4 it easier than other methods.
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31002091/what-is-python-dev-package-used-for