install beautiful soup using pip

The easy method that will work even in a corrupted setup environment is:

To download ez_setup.py and run it using the command line,

python ez_setup.py

Output

Extracting in c:\uu\uu\appdata\local\temp\tmpjxvil3
Now working in c:\u\u\appdata\local\temp\tmpjxvil3\setuptools-5.6
Installing Setuptools

Run

pip install beautifulsoup4

Output

Downloading/unpacking beautifulsoup4
Running setup.py ... egg_info for package
Installing collected packages: beautifulsoup4
Running setup.py install for beautifulsoup4
Successfully installed beautifulsoup4
Cleaning up...

Bam! Done.

import os

os.system("pip install beautifulsoup4")

or

import subprocess

exe = subprocess.Popen("pip install beautifulsoup4")

exe_out = exe.communicate()

print(exe_out)

pip is a command line tool, not Python syntax.

In other words, run the command in your console, not in the Python interpreter:

pip install beautifulsoup4

You may have to use the full path:

C:\Python27\Scripts\pip install beautifulsoup4

or even

C:\Python27\Scripts\pip.exe install beautifulsoup4

Windows will then execute the pip program and that will use Python to install the package.

Another option is to use the Python -m command-line switch to run the pip module, which then operates exactly like the pip command:

python -m pip install beautifulsoup4

or

python.exe -m pip install beautifulsoup4