On 19/10/2012 14:24, graham wrote: > Thanks to everyone who replied. > > Python was installed in the subdirectory C:\Python27 with the file > feedparser.py residing in C:\Python27\Lib\email. > > Setting the Windows environment variable (which did not previously > exist) to C:\Python27\Lib\email allowed me to import feedparser > successfully. > > However, it seems that this feedparser module is not the module I wanted. > > I'm trying to follow an introductory Python course from the magazine > Linux Format (issue number 120 I think).
I'm very surprised that the article tells you to import a non-standard module without telling you where to download it. I imagine that the module is this one: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/feedparser/ (In general, PyPI is the first place to look for Python packages). > This is all confusing and frustrating. Understandably. It's not unknown, but it is unusual for two identically-named packages to exist for Python. It's more unfortunate when it's one used in a beginner's article. If you understand how to download the .zip file from the page above and unzip it then you need to go to the directory where the unzipped files are and run: python setup.py install If you're not sure how to do any of that, feel free to post back here or to the python-tutor list [1] which is a little more experience in helping newcomers. TJG [1] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
