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

This worked for me on 10.8.5

1. Install Xcode from Mac App Store
2. Xcode -> Preferences -> Downloads -> Command Line Tools
3. Install homebrew using
4. ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)"
5. brew install libxml2
6. sudo easy_install lxml

This comprises suggestions from:

• https://stackoverflow.com/a/6545556/300224
• https://stackoverflow.com/a/5785013/300224
• https://stackoverflow.com/a/9403589

But I wanted to compile it into one answer rather than leave comments everywhere