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Asked: 2026-06-05T06:36:57+00:00

I am new to Python, trying to learn it by doing a tutorial based

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I am new to Python, trying to learn it by doing a tutorial based on “Dive into Python” book.
I am already in chapter about SOAP and I encountered some problems, when I tried to install all required libraries to use SOAP.
The tutorial says I need 3 libraries:

PyXML, fpconst, SOAPpy

I’ve installed fpconst succesfully.
However I can’t install two others. I read on some forum that to install SOAPpy I need to have PyXML already installed, so maybe the problem is only in the first library.

I followed instructions in README, but I’m getting some error and I don’t really know what is wrong and how can solve it. See screen for details. My version of Python is 2.7.2+ and I am trying to install PyXML version 0.8.4.

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The errors states that such file or directory does not exist.
I am using Ubuntu 11.10.

PS: Ah! I forgot to mention that. I downloaded PyXML from this source :

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyxml/

And it it written here that it is out of date and one shouldn’t use it. So what is an alternative to PyXML?

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you are using Ubuntu, why not just install these with your package manager?

    sudo apt-get install python-lxml python-fpconst python-soappy

    The package manager should be your preferred way to install any software in a Linux distro – it will make your life a lot easier, and ensure you keep things up-to-date and can easily uninstall them.

    Failing that, you could also use PyPi – the Python Package Index.

    pip install lxml
pip install fpconst
pip install soappy
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