Question

I just downloaded Beautiful Soup and I’ve decided I’ll make a small library (is that what they call them in Python?) that will return results of a movie given and IMDB movie search.

My question is, how exactly does this import thing work?

For example, I downloaded BeautifulSoup and all it is, is a .py file. Does that file have to be in the same folder as the my python application (my project that will use the library)?

Answer 1

For Ubuntu, you can search for packages with the command

apt-cache search beautifulsoup

This should yield

python-beautifulsoup - error-tolerant HTML parser for Python

So the easiest way to install BeautifulSoup for ubuntu would be to run

sudo apt-get install python-beautifulsoup

Once you do this, you can put

import BeautifulSoup 

in any of your scripts and your python installation will find the module.