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Asked: 2026-06-01T01:35:25+00:00

I’m running Mac OS X 10.7.3 on a Macbook Pro. It came with Python

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I’m running Mac OS X 10.7.3 on a Macbook Pro. It came with Python 2.7.1 installed. I need the beautiful soup library. So I did the following:

1) went to crummy.com and downloaded beautifulsoup4-4.0.2.tar.gz

2) uncompressed it

3) navigated to uncompressed directory and typed the following

python setup.py install

but i got a error that i couldn’t write to some directory.

4) so i ran:

sudo python setup.py install

No Errors! Good, right? Not exactly. When I try to run a program with the following:

from BeautifulSoup import *

I receive the following error:

ImportError: No module named BeautifulSoup

What did I do wrong?

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  1. Editorial Team

    For BeautifulSoup4 you have to use

    from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

    Check the document: BS4 document

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