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I have windows vista with Python 2.7. I would like to install BeautifulSoup 4 but apparently I can’t install Beautiful Soup just by copying the file into the site-packages directory.
I have to install pip and then run some commands from the command prompt.
Could you guide me through it step by step?
You don’t need
pipfor installing Beautiful Soup – you can just download it and runpython setup.py installfrom the directory that you have unzipped BeautifulSoup in (assuming that you have added Python to your systemPATH– if you haven’t and you don’t want to you can runC:\Path\To\Python27\python "C:\Path\To\BeautifulSoup\setup.py" install)However, you really should install
pip– see How to install pip on Windows for how to do that best (via @MartijnPieters comment)