Installing lxml, libxml2, libxslt on Windows 8.1

Question

After additional exploration, I found a solution to installing lxml with pip and wheel. Additional comments on approach welcomed.

I\'m finding the existing Python

Answer 1

I started working with lxml a little while ago, when there was a need to parse some html files. I somehow installed it and then after some time I lost the installation because of PC format.

Installing lxml on Windows from the available binaries/wheels is quite easy. The below link has the binaries/wheels in case you need them.

http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#lxml

After downloading the wheel file as per your Windows you can issue the below command pip install

And In case you are using git-sdk-win32 for Windows, You can first search the libxml2-devel,libxml2-python and libxslt-devel, libxslt-python using pacman by issuing the below command.

pacman -Ss libxml2

and

pacman -Ss libxslt

then you can install lxml using the below command

pip install lxml It might fail to build the wheel(as it did for me) but will install lxml using the setup.py

I simply have started loving this git-win32-sdk. It helps me work on my Windows with what I have learnt on Linux.

https://github.com/git-for-windows/build-extra/releases