Dear Ian, and other programmers, thank you for your advice. I am resending the last message because this twattish cut and paste facility on my computer has a knack of chopping off ones original message, I will try to convey the right message this time :
I have removed the original Beautiful Soup 4 download, that I had unzipped to my Beautiful Soup directory on the C drive. I downloaded the latest version of Beautiful Soup 4 from the Crummy site. I unzipped it, and removed the contents of the unzipped directory and placed contents in my Beautiful Soup directory, and again had the same output to my console re: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601] Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Users\Intel Atom>cd "c:\Beautiful Soup" c:\Beautiful Soup>c:\Python27\python setup.py install running install running build running build_py error: package directory 'bs4' does not exist c:\Beautiful Soup> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have made a note of all the contents of the downloaded and unzipped BS4,ie the contents of my Beautiful Soup folder on the C drive, which is as follows: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- running install running build running build_py error: package directory 'bs4' does not existinit _html5lib _htmlparser _lxml 6.1 AUTHORS conf COPYING dammit demonstration_markup element index.rst Makefile NEWS PGK-INFO README setup test_builder_registry test_docs test_html5lib test_htmlparser text_lxml test_soup test_tree testing TODO -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I can see no bs4 folder within the contents. I can not see any setup.py file either, but this is how I downloaded it. I am only following instructions as suggested. I do not understand why it is not working. I hope someone can direct me in the right direction, as I seem to be stuck, and I don't think it has much bearing on my fluency or lack of it with Python. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
