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How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python?

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I have downloaded Beautiful Soup, and have followed the instruction in the 'Getting Started with Beautiful Soup' book, but my Python installations keep returning errors, so I can't get started. I have unzipped Beautiful Soup to a folder of the same name on my C drive, in accordance with the first two steps of page 12 of the aforementioned publication, but proceeding to navigate to the program as in step three, re: "Open up the command line prompt and navigate to the folder where you have unzipped the folder as follows:

cd Beautiful Soup
python setup python install "

This returns on my Python 27 :
>>> cd Beautiful Soup
File "",line 1
cd Beautiful Soup
 ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>>

also I get:
>>> cd Beautiful Soup
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>>

to my IDLE Python 2.7 version, same goes for the Python 3.4 installations. Hope someone can help.

posted May 10, 2014 by Sonu Jindal

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This would be the operating system command line, not Python's interactive mode. Since you refer to a C drive, I'm going to assume Windows; you'll want to open up "Command Prompt", or cmd.exe, or whatever name your version of Windows buries it under. (Microsoft does not make it particularly easy on you.) Since you have a space in the name, you'll need quotes:

cd "c:Beautiful Soup"

Then proceed as per the instructions.

answer May 10, 2014 by anonymous
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