BeautifulSoup import error
beautifulsoup, python, web-scraping
Solution
The solution is:
sudo pip3 install BeautifulSoup4
Problem
I am trying to write a simple, local python script to do some html parsing. I installed beautifulsoup4 and imported it using ``` from bs4 import BeautifulSoup ``` But I get the error: ``` Traceback (most recent call last): File "scrape_descriptions.py", line 1, in <module> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup ImportError: No module named 'bs4' ``` I've tried installing BS4 in just about every way. First I did ``` sudo pip install BeautifulSoup4 ``` then I tried downloading the actual files from the website and running ``` sudo python setup.py install ``` and finally I tried ``` sudo su easy_install BeautifulSoup4 ``` All of these operations appear to have completed successfully. But I'm still getting this error. I've scoured other posts but pretty much all of them are just installation instructions, which I've already done. Typing ``` pip freeze ``` shows that bs4 is installed but running ``` $ python3 -i >>> help('modules') ``` does not appear to list bs4. Edit 1: Running sudo pip3 install BeautifulSoup gives this error: ``` Downloading/unpacking BeautifulSoup Downloading BeautifulSoup-3.2.1.tar.gz Running setup.py (path:/private/tmp/pip_build_root/BeautifulSoup/setup.py) egg_info for package BeautifulSoup Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 17, in <module> File "/private/tmp/pip_build_root/BeautifulSoup/setup.py", line 22 print "Unit tests have failed!" ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 17, in <module> File "/private/tmp/pip_build_root/BeautifulSoup/setup.py", line 22 print "Unit tests have failed!" ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax ---------------------------------------- Cleaning up... Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 in /private/tmp/pip_build_root/BeautifulSoup Storing debug log for failure in /Users/griff/.pip/pip.log ``` Edit 2: Solved! The reason pip3 was failing was because I was using ``` sudo pip3 install BeautifulSoup ``` instead of ``` sudo pip3 install BeautifulSoup4 ``` which worked. Thanks!