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ImportError: cannot import name 'beautifulsoup' - soothsayerpg - Jul-16-2018
Hi guys! Just new here.
I'm using Windows-7, the latest Python 3.7 and the latest Beautifulsoup4.6 but still getting those error. Tried a variety of mixing things up, searching the web, youtube tutorials but still getting that error.
I mean it's working fine when I try to run to check for no errors using Python IDLE. But as we know, that's already inside Python. I usually use Sublime and Windows Powershell to run things.
Hope I had put all the information and thanks in advance for the help.
Oh, and btw, still getting the same error using Mac.
RE: ImportError: cannot import name 'beautifulsoup' - buran - Jul-16-2018
post your code in python tags. Post the full traceback you get - in error tags. how did you install BeautifulSoup? Do you have more than one python installation?
RE: ImportError: cannot import name 'beautifulsoup' - snippsat - Jul-16-2018
# Test that python use 3.7
C:\>python -c "import sys; print(sys.executable)"
C:\python37\python.exe
# Test that pip use 3.7
C:\>pip -V
pip 10.0.1 from c:\python37\lib\site-packages\pip (python 3.7)
# Install
C:\>pip install -U beautifulsoup4
Requirement already up-to-date: beautifulsoup4 in c:\python37\lib\site-packages (4.6.0)
# Test that it work
C:\>python
Python 3.7.0 (v3.7.0:1bf9cc5093, Jun 27 2018, 04:06:47) [MSC v.1914 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import bs4
>>> bs4.__version__
'4.6.0'
>>> # Normal import
>>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
>>> soup = BeautifulSoup('html', 'html.parser') # Or 'lxml' for faster parserPython 3.6/3.7 and pip installation under WindowsFollow this then should all be working,if use Editors eg VS Code, PyCharm ...ect.
So most there config choice of which
interpreter point to 3.7.
RE: ImportError: cannot import name 'beautifulsoup' - soothsayerpg - Jul-18-2018
Apology for the late response. The forum notification ends up on my spam email folder.
Used Windows Powershell to install beautifulsoup.
python -m pip install bs4The code is just a practice code from a video lesson and just had a simple html code inside the same .py sheet. Nothing fancy, just trying to output the same html by calling
soup = beautifulsoup(html, "html.parser") print(soup) print(type(soup))Here's the error.
Error:Traceback (most recent call last):
File "beautifulscrape.py" line 1, in <module>
from bs4 import beautifulsoup
ImportError: cannot import name 'beautifulsoup'RE: ImportError: cannot import name 'beautifulsoup' - buran - Jul-18-2018
It should be BeautifulSoup, not beautifulsoup
RE: ImportError: cannot import name 'beautifulsoup' - soothsayerpg - Jul-21-2018
Do I need an venv for this to work? Coz to my surprise scrapy needs a new folder to create it's venv in order for it to run. Just also asking if I might be missing that part? Thanks for the answer buran, will try that later.
RE: ImportError: cannot import name 'beautifulsoup' - buran - Jul-21-2018
you can make virtual environment and it's even recommended, but not required