install beautiful soup using pip [duplicate]

Answer 1

import os

os.system("pip install beautifulsoup4")

or

import subprocess

exe = subprocess.Popen("pip install beautifulsoup4")

exe_out = exe.communicate()

print(exe_out)

Answer 2

pip is a command line tool, not Python syntax.

In other words, run the command in your console, not in the Python interpreter:

pip install beautifulsoup4

You may have to use the full path:

C:\Python27\Scripts\pip install beautifulsoup4

or even

C:\Python27\Scripts\pip.exe install beautifulsoup4

Windows will then execute the pip program and that will use Python to install the package.

Another option is to use the Python -m command-line switch to run the pip module, which then operates exactly like the pip command:

python -m pip install beautifulsoup4

or

python.exe -m pip install beautifulsoup4

Answer 3

If you have more than one version of python installed, run the respective pip command.

For example for python3.6 run the following

pip3.6 install beautifulsoup4

To check the available command/version of pip and python on Mac run

ls /usr/local/bin

Answer 4

The easy method that will work even in corrupted setup environment is :

To download ez_setup.py and run it using command line

python ez_setup.py

output

Extracting in c:\uu\uu\appdata\local\temp\tmpjxvil3 Now working in c:\u\u\appdata\local\temp\tmpjxvil3\setuptools-5.6 Installing Setuptools

run

pip install beautifulsoup4

output

Downloading/unpacking beautifulsoup4 Running setup.py ... egg_info for package Installing collected packages: beautifulsoup4 Running setup.py install for beautifulsoup4 Successfully installed beautifulsoup4 Cleaning up...

Bam ! |Done¬