ImportError: No module named bs4 because in wrong python folder

Question

I am new to Python. I am just trying to extract a string from an HTML file. I cannot make it work. Everyone is talking about Beautiful Soup but it doesn't work for me...

This is my error:

ImportError: No module named bs4

I installed Beautiful Soup 4 already but I believe it is in the wrong folder:

sudo pip install beautifulsoup4
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): beautifulsoup4 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
Cleaning up...

I am using Python 3.2. How do I force Beautiful Soup to install in the other folder?

Use the Python 3.2 `pip`; each `pip` installation is tied to *one* Python version. — Martijn Pieters, Aug 22 '13 at 20:17
Related / possible dupe: [Pip install for both pythons](http://stackoverflow.com/q/16129720) — Martijn Pieters, Aug 22 '13 at 20:20
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6587507/how-to-install-pip-with-python-3 — Ashwini Chaudhary, Aug 22 '13 at 20:20
possible duplicate of [How to install python3 version of package via pip?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10763440/how-to-install-python3-version-of-package-via-pip) — Martijn Pieters, Aug 22 '13 at 20:20

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 22 '13 at 16:29

Look, I suggest you download first the package of BeautifulSoup from its source in https://pypi.python.org/pypi/BeautifulSoup, once this has completed go to the folder where you download the compressed file , decompress the file and then inside you will see a python file named setup.py. This is the install file of the package, you need to run a command prompt in the folder and execute teh following line :

python setup.py install

This is another way of install Python packages without pip.

ImportError: No module named bs4 because in wrong python folder

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