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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 16:54:09 -0600
Subject: Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.
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On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Simon Evans
<musicalhacksaw@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Dear Ian,
> The book does recommend to use Python 2.7 (see bottom line of page 10).
> The book also recommends to use Beautiful Soup 4.
> You are right that in that I have placed the unzipped BS4 folder within a folder, and I therefore removed the contents of the inner folder and transferred them to the outer folder.
> The console now can access the contents of the Beautiful Soup folder, but it is still having problems with it as the last output to my console demonstrates :
>
>
> Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
>
> Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
>
> C:\Users\Intel Atom>cd "c:\Beautiful Soup"
>
> c:\Beautiful Soup>c:\Python27\python setup.py install
> running install
> running build
> running build_py
> error: package directory 'bs4' does not exist

In the same folder where setup.py is, there should be a bs4 folder.
You might want to just wipe your Beautiful Soup directory and do a
clean unzip.