Import error even though module is installed

[datafix]

Cant post my code because I'm new and it has links?

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from bs4 import BeautifulSoup from urllib.request import urlopen   url = "http://www.pythonforbeginners.com"   content = urlopen(url).read()   soup = BeautifulSoup(content)   print( soup.prettify())   #print(title) #>> 'title'? Python For Beginners   #print soup.title.string #>> ? Python For Beginners   print(soup.p)

[Larz60+]

remove the links.
You'll be able to use them after you make a few posts

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Error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/ubuntu/workspace/ex50/bin/firstsoup.py", line 1, in <module>
    from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
ImportError: No module named 'bs4'


Process exited with code: 1

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Sorry for the multiple reply chunks- bs4 is definitely installed, so I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Apologize in advance for my newbie/idiot status!

[Larz60+]

You may have it installed, but apparently not for the version of Python you are running
please read: https://python-forum.io/Thread-Basic-Par...er-Windows

type (from command line):

1	python --version

[snippsat]

Sorry for the multiple reply chunks- bs4 is definitely installed,

It's not installed when you get that message.
pip3 install beautifulsoup4
You execute with python3 firstsoup.py
Look at my Linux Python 3 environment,
and your script is wrong in newer BeautifulSoup has to call a parser and don't use urllib look at Web-Scraping part-1

[datafix]

I thought I was running v3 but in fact i was running v2. So I fixed that, reran it with v3 and got the same import error. Running on Cloud9- that shouldn't make a difference- do you think?

[Larz60+]

run this: https://python-forum.io/Thread-Show-Inst...age-detail

[snippsat]

Running on Cloud9- that shouldn't make a difference- do you think?

I use Cloud9 sometime myself.
Cloud9 has Python 2 and 3 installed,you have to pip3 install module,
and run code with python3 myscript.py
Here a run at Cloud9.

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# install modules snippsat:~/workspace/bs4_test $ sudo pip3 install beautifulsoup4 requests lxml                                                                                             Downloading/unpacking beautifulsoup4  Downloading beautifulsoup4-4.6.0-py3-none-any.whl (86kB): 86kB downloaded Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): requests in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages Downloading/unpacking lxml  Downloading lxml-3.8.0.tar.gz (3.8MB): 3.8MB downloaded  Running setup.py (path:/tmp/pip_build_root/lxml/setup.py) egg_info for package lxml    Building lxml version 3.8.0.    Building without Cython.    Using build configuration of libxslt 1.1.28     Successfully installed beautifulsoup4 lxml Cleaning up...   # After install can run a interactive test snippsat:~/workspace/bs4_test $ python3 Python 3.4.3 (default, Oct 14 2015, 20:28:29) [GCC 4.8.4] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import requests >>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup >>> >>> url = 'https://www.python.org/' >>> url_get = requests.get(url) >>> soup = BeautifulSoup(url_get.content, 'lxml') >>> print(soup.select('head > title')[0].text) Welcome to Python.org >>>

[datafix]

Thanks so much for all of the feedback. I was off on another project, but I'm back. I'll try out these suggestions and let you know how it worked.

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@snippsat - Thanks! Your last post did the trick.