title: Trouble installing BeautifulSoup4 (Windows 10, python 2.7, visual studio pro 2013)
body: <p>I'm new here and am a novice programmer. I'm trying to put together a basic web scraper with python as a project for myself while I continue to learn programming and get more practice.</p>
  
  <p>I'm trying to use BeautifulSoup 4, and have followed instructions for installing it from multiple sources. I have installed and reinstalled BeautifulSoup 4 using pip, easy_install and setup.py multiple times, and no matter what I do, the bs4 module is never recognized. I'm not sure where else to go with this, as my hours of google searching is coming up with no other alternatives.</p>
  
  <p>I have Python 2.7 installed, and I use Visual Studio 2013 professional with python tools. I have also attempted to access the bs4 module in IDLE to no avail. If I move the bs4 folder to my python project root, it will work, however I feel as though that shouldn't be necessary.</p>
  
  <p>I have been using the following line to access the bs4 module:</p>
  
  <pre><code>from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I always get the following output:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Traceback (most recent call last):   File
    "I:\PythonProjects\bs4_install_test\bs4_install_test\bs4_install_test.py",
    line 1, in 
        from bs4 import BeautifulSoup ImportError: No module named bs4</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>EDIT: I am confident I only have a single version of Python installed (2.7) and have verified that 2.7 is the version being used with the following code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>import sys
  print (sys.version)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The output from this is as follows:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>2.7.10 (default, May 23 2015, 09:40:32) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)]</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>If anyone could steer me in the right direction, it would be much appreciated.</p>
  
  <p>Thank you in advance for taking the time to read and help.</p>