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Asked: 2026-05-25T19:27:07+00:00

I just installed lxml for parsing xml file in python. I am using TextMate

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I just installed lxml for parsing xml file in python. I am using TextMate as an IDE. Problem is that when I try to import lxml (from lxml import entree) then I get

ImportError:’No module named lxml’

But when I use Terminal then everything is fine

Python 2.7.2 (v2.7.2:8527427914a2, Jun 11 2011, 15:22:34) 
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from lxml import etree
>>> root=etree.element("root")
>>> root=etree.Element("root")
>>> print (root.tag)
root
>>> root.append(etree.Element("child1"))
>>> child2 = etree.SubElement(root, "child2")
>>> child3 = etree.SubElement(root, "child3")
>>> print (etree.tostring(root,pretty_print=True))
<root>
  <child1/>
  <child2/>
  <child3/>
</root>

It’s pretty weird. Does it have something to do with TextMate?

Suggestion Please!

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  1. Editorial Team

    This most probably means that you have more than one python installation on your system and that TextMate and the Terminal using different ones by default.

    One workaround: In your python file, you can specify an interpreter directive to point to the python installation (and executable) of your choice:

    #!/usr/local/bin/python
# Even thought standard python is in /usr/bin/python, here we want another ...
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