BeautifulSoup installed but not recognized when dev_appserver runs
Question: **Update**

    
    
    By adding BeautifulSoup.py to my app source, this error was gone :)  
    

Thanks @Ned Deily, that took along time, but was fruitful

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I have just one instance of python 2.5 installed with BeautifulSoup, still no
luck!, what I am I doing wrong, please help

    
    
    bash-3.2$ ls -ltr /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages
    total 1096
    -rw-r--r--   1 Harit  admin   66866 May 28  2006 BeautifulSoup.py
    -rw-r--r--   1 Harit  admin   26413 May 28  2006 BeautifulSoupTests.py
    -rw-rwxr--   1 root   admin     119 Sep 18  2006 README
    drwxr-xr-x  19 Harit  admin     646 Aug 20 23:58 django
    -rw-r--r--   1 Harit  admin    1228 Aug 20 23:58 Django-1.3-py2.5.egg-info
    -rw-r--r--   1 Harit  admin  333390 Aug 21 00:17 setuptools-0.6c11-py2.5.egg
    -rw-r--r--   1 Harit  admin      30 Aug 21 00:17 setuptools.pth
    -rw-r--r--   1 Harit  admin     215 Aug 21 00:22 easy-install.pth
    -rw-r--r--   1 Harit  admin   33196 Aug 21 00:23 BeautifulSoupTests.pyc
    -rw-r--r--   1 Harit  admin   67193 Aug 21 00:23 BeautifulSoup.pyc
    -rw-r--r--   1 Harit  admin     970 Aug 21 00:23 BeautifulSoup-3.0.0-py2.5.egg-info
    bash-3.2$ 
    

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I removed all versions of python from macport and system and re installed the
python 2.7 version

    
    
    bash-3.2$ python
    Python 2.7.2 (v2.7.2:8527427914a2, Jun 11 2011, 15:22:34) 
    [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
    >>> import django
    >>> from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
    >>>   
    

and all the paths also look good

    
    
    bash-3.2$ echo $PATH
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/git/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/opt/local/bin  
    

and have just one version of python that has both `Django` and `BeautifulSoup`
installed

    
    
    bash-3.2$ cd /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/
    Headers/   Mac/       Python     Resources/ bin/       include/   lib/       share/     
    bash-3.2$ cd /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/lib/python2.7/lib
    lib-dynload/ lib-tk/      lib2to3/     
    bash-3.2$ cd /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/lib/python2.7/
    Display all 641 possibilities? (y or n)
    bash-3.2$ ls /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/lib/python2.7/site-packages/
    BeautifulSoup-3.2.0-py2.7.egg-info  BeautifulSoupTests.pyc          easy-install.pth
    BeautifulSoup.py            Django-1.3-py2.7.egg-info       setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg
    BeautifulSoup.pyc           README                  setuptools.pth
    BeautifulSoupTests.py           django
    bash-3.2$ 
    

but still when I run `dev_appserver.py project` it says it can not import
module `BeautifulSoup`

Please help

Thank you

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I have BeautifulSoup installed on my mac and I can do the following:

    
    
    bash-3.2$ python
    Python 2.6.7 (r267:88850, Jul 27 2011, 11:54:59) 
    [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
    >>> from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
    >>>   
    

but when I run my djando app and try to run the code, it fails saying

    
    
    Error was: No module named BeautifulSoup  
    

It seems I am using everything correctly

    
    
    bash-3.2$ which python
    /opt/local/bin/python
    
    lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin        9 Aug 16 13:55 python -> python2.6  
    
    bash-3.2$ cd /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/
    BeautifulSoup-3.0.0-py2.6.egg-info                  ipython-0.11-py2.6.egg/
    BeautifulSoup.py                                    mercurial/
    BeautifulSoup.pyc                                   mercurial-1.8.3_20110502-py2.6.egg-info/
    BeautifulSoupTests.py                               nose-1.1.2-py2.6.egg/
    BeautifulSoupTests.pyc                              paramiko-1.7.6-py2.6.egg
    Django-1.3-py2.6.egg-info                           pip-1.0.2-py2.6.egg/
    MySQL_python-1.2.3-py2.6-macosx-10.6-universal.egg  pycrypto-2.3-py2.6-macosx-10.6-universal.egg
    README                                              pysqlite-2.6.3-py2.6.egg-info
    django/                                             pysqlite2/
    easy-install.pth                                    setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg
    easy_install                                        setuptools.pth
    easy_install-2.6                                    xlrd/
    hgext/                                              xlrd-0.6.1-py2.6.egg-info
    

How can I resolve this issue  
Thanks


Answer: You apparently have installed a second, newer instance of Python 2.6. Chances
are that your Django app is installed and being run from another instance of
Python 2.6, possibly the system Python 2.6 (`/usr/bin/python` or
`/usr/bin/python2.6`). Type `which python` to see the path of the Python which
has BeautifulSoup (`/usr/local/bin/python` perhaps?). You'll need to
consolidate things; either install BeautifulSoup in the Python with Django or
install Django in the Python with BeautifulSoup.

UPDATE: Since you are apparently running the Google App Engine dev_server,
chances are that it is running under Python 2.5, not Python 2.6; at the
moment, GAE is officially supported only with 2.5, as far as I know. Note
Apple ships both a Python 2.6 and 2.5 with OS X 10.6. So you probably need to
install Beautiful Soup in Python 2.5. Try:

    
    
    easy_install-2.5 -U -v beautifulsoup==3.2
    

At the moment, you'll need to specify the version as there is currently a
newer beta version of Beautiful Soup 4 that appears to be incompatible with
Python 2.5.

UPDATE: You also seem to have more than one version of Python 2.5 installed.
The path you show is for a 3rd-party Python, not the Apple-supplied Python
2.5. _So_ my final suggestion is to try using the easy_install-2.5 for the
Apple-supplied Python 2.5:

    
    
    /usr/bin/easy_install-2.5 -U -v beautifulsoup==3.2
    

