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Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.

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Date 2014-05-12 05:17 +1000
Subject Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 5:05 AM, Simon Evans <musicalhacksaw@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Thank you everyone who replied, for your help. Using the command prompt console, it accepts the first line of code, but doesn't seem to accept the second line. I have altered it a little, but it is not having any of it, I quote my console input and output here, as it can probably explain things better than I :-
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Thank you. This sort of transcript does make it very easy to see
what's going on!

> Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
> Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
>
> C:\Users\Intel Atom>cd"c:\Beautiful Soup"
> The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.

Command line syntax is always to put a command first (one word), and
then its arguments (zero, one, or more words). You put quotes around a
logical word when it has spaces in it. So, for instance, "foo bar" is
one logical word. In this case, you omitted the space between the
command and its argument, so Windows couldn't handle it. [1]

> C:\Users\Intel Atom>cd "c:\Beautiful Soup"

And this is correct; you put quotes around the argument, and execute
the "cd" command with an argument of "c:\Beautiful Soup". It then
works, as is shown by the change of prompt in your subsequent lines.

> c:\Beautiful Soup>python setup.py install.
>   File "setup.py", line 22
>     print "Unit tests have failed!"
>                                   ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax

This indicates that you've installed a 3.x version of Python as the
default, and setup.py is expecting a 2.x Python. Do you have multiple
Pythons installed? Try typing this:

c:\Python27\python setup.py install

(That will work only if you have Python 2.7 installed into the default
location.)

Hope that helps!

ChrisA
[1] Windows lets you be a bit sloppy; for instance, cd\ works without
a space between the command and the argument. (AFAIK this is true if
and only if the path name starts with a backslash.) But normally, you
separate command and argument(s) with a space.

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How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions. Simon Evans <musicalhacksaw@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-05-10 09:58 -0700
  Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions. Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-11 03:03 +1000
  Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions. Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-05-10 14:39 -0400
  Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions. Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-11 09:23 +1000
  Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions. Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2014-05-10 22:16 -0400
  Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions. Simon Evans <musicalhacksaw@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-05-11 12:05 -0700
    Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions. Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-12 05:17 +1000
      Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions. Simon Evans <musicalhacksaw@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-05-11 13:03 -0700
        Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions. MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-05-11 21:19 +0100
    Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions. Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-05-11 16:31 -0400
      Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions. Simon Evans <musicalhacksaw@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-05-11 15:03 -0700
        Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions. MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-05-11 23:10 +0100
          Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions. Simon Evans <musicalhacksaw@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-05-11 16:19 -0700
            Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions. Simon Evans <musicalhacksaw@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-05-11 16:22 -0700
              Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions. Simon Evans <musicalhacksaw@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-05-11 16:37 -0700
            Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions. Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-05-11 17:47 -0600
              Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions. Simon Evans <musicalhacksaw@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-05-12 09:35 -0700
                Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions. Simon Evans <musicalhacksaw@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-05-12 12:17 -0700
                Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions. Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-05-12 16:54 -0600
                Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions. Simon Evans <musicalhacksaw@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-05-13 04:52 -0700
                Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions. Simon Evans <musicalhacksaw@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-05-13 04:59 -0700
                Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions. Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-05-13 14:23 +0100
                Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions. MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-05-13 15:48 +0100
                Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions. Simon Evans <musicalhacksaw@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-05-14 12:28 -0700
                Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions. Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-05-14 13:33 -0600
                Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions. Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-15 05:36 +1000
                Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions. Simon Evans <musicalhacksaw@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-05-15 02:22 -0700
                Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions. Simon Evans <musicalhacksaw@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-05-15 04:25 -0700
                Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions. Simon Evans <musicalhacksaw@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-05-15 04:30 -0700
                Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions. Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-05-15 08:12 -0400
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                Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions. Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-05-13 10:33 -0600
                Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions. Simon Evans <musicalhacksaw@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-05-14 11:58 -0700
                Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions. Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-05-14 13:30 -0600
                Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions. Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-05-13 20:08 +0100
            Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions. Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-05-11 18:02 -0600
              Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions. Simon Evans <musicalhacksaw@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-05-12 09:02 -0700
        Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions. Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-05-11 19:49 -0400
          Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions. Simon Evans <musicalhacksaw@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-05-12 09:17 -0700
    Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions. Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-12 11:40 +1000
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