How do you install lxml on OS X Leopard without using MacPorts or Fink?

Question

I\'ve tried this and run in to problems a bunch of times in the past. Does anyone have a recipe for installing lxml on OS X without MacPorts or Fink that definitely works?<

Answer 1

I've had excellent luck with Homebrew to install the libxml2 dependency:

brew install libxml2

Homebrew doesn't seem to have libxslt available, but I've not yet had a need for XSLT. YMMV.

Once you have the dependency(s), then the usual methods work just fine:

pip install lxml

or

easy_install lxml