How to install beautiful soup 4 with python 2.7 on windows

Question

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

Answer 1

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

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N' now I see I need to upgrade my pip, which I just did :)