Question

I bought a book on data visualizations and after downloading Python was directed to download beautiful soup and “save the beautiful soup python.py file in the directory that I plan to save my code in.”

There is no beautiful soup .py file in the beautiful soup download just a bunch of other files. It’s like a cruel nerd joke.

Of the numerous files within the Beautiful Soup download which one should I save as “beautifulsoup.py”?

Answer 1

I would ignore those instructions – putting commonly used 3rd party libraries in with your own code isn’t really the way to do it.

You’ll want to be using beautifulsoup4 now, so you should either pip or easy_install that… then you’ll be able to use it as from bs4 import BeautifulSoup.