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Having some beautifulsoup htmlparse errors, how to revert to a different version?

Answer 1

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i run in the same problem on mac osx 10.5 and i removed the current version of beautiful soup with

sudo apt-get remove python-beautifulsoup

then i installed 3.0.7 from this address and all is now working fine.

To know the current version of you module:

import BeautifulSoup
print BeautifulSoup.__version__

Mermoz 2010-08-09 00:38:30

but how can I install it using apt-get?

Blankman 2010-08-09 00:43:43

you may try: apt-get -v 3.0.7 but i doubt it will work (that would mean that the apt-get repository has a reference of all the versions)however installing a package from a dowload is fairly simple and reliable (if dependencies is what you fear):unpack,cd to the directory and sudo python setup.py install

Mermoz 2010-08-09 00:53:03

@Mermoz thanks that worked.

Blankman 2010-08-09 01:04:05

Answer 2

A:

Answer to your first question: at your shell prompt, type

python -c "import BeautifulSoup as bs; print(bs.__version__)"

John Machin 2010-08-09 00:39:13

Answer 3

A:

For your first question:

import BeautifulSoup
BeautifulSoup.__version__

And for the second:

You can't. Maybe you should use easy_install or pip instead.

Satoru.Logic 2010-08-09 00:41:39

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