beautifulsoup won't recognize lxml

Question

I\'m attempting to use lxml as the parser for BeautifulSoup because the default one is MUCH slower, however i\'m getting this error:

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Answer 1

Go to these pages:

1. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/cssselect

2. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/lxml/3.2.5

download the source files for both packages. Expand each of them into a different folder. Then in each folder locate the setup.py file and run the following command:

python setup.py install

You may run into some problems with lxml. If you get an error like

error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

make sure you install libxml2-dev & libxslt1-dev using

sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev

Hopefully that should work.

Answer 2

It looks like lxml has not been successfully installed. To install lxml on Ubuntu, run

sudo apt-get install libxslt1-dev libxml2

In virtualenv:

pip install --upgrade lxml
pip install cssselect