[Tutor] antigravity?!?

2016-01-01 Thread boB Stepp
Ok, you Python developers (If any follow the Tutor list.) are a quirky lot! Thinking about Martin's suggestion to explore the standard library, I typed "py" in my W7 Command Prompt, followed by "help()" and then modules to see what modules I had installed on my system. While doing so, I was intrig

[Tutor] What potential problems might I encounter installing Anaconda?

2016-01-01 Thread boB Stepp
Currently I have one version of Python installed, v. 3.4.4. My OS is W7-64bit. I use Vim 7.4 for my editing. Two of the textbooks I have started will use several Python scientific computing packages. Anaconda seems the way to go to get them all (plus others) in one fell swoop. Questions: 1) At

Re: [Tutor] OT: How best to use Git for multi-directory projects?

2016-01-01 Thread boB Stepp
On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 11:32 PM, Martin A. Brown wrote: > > Hello there boB, > > Hey, wait a second! What time zone are you in? You can't have 2016 > resolutions already. Not even the New Zealanders are there yet! Santa gave me a peek into you know who's time machine! >>My thoughts are that

Re: [Tutor] trouble with beautiful soup

2016-01-01 Thread marcus lütolf
Thanks, I reinstalled the 64bit version but get the same traceback in Python Shell, also usin ..from bs4. Regards, Marcus -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Alan Gauld [mailto:alan.ga...@btinternet.com] Gesendet: Freitag, 1. Januar 2016 12:25 An: marcus lütolf ; tutor@python.org Betreff: Re:

Re: [Tutor] trouble with beautiful soup

2016-01-01 Thread Danny Yoo
According to the documentation for Beautiful Soup 3, http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs3/documentation.html you must use one of the following: from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup # For processing HTML OR from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulStoneSoup #

Re: [Tutor] trouble with beautiful soup

2016-01-01 Thread Alan Gauld
On 01/01/16 10:21, marcus lütolf wrote: > But I get a traceback if I try to run beautifulsoup in Python: > > Python 2.7.11 (v2.7.11:6d1b6a68f775, Dec 5 2015, 20:32:19) [MSC v.1500 32 > bit (Intel)] on win32 > Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information. > By the way, I just n

Re: [Tutor] trouble with beautiful soup

2016-01-01 Thread marcus lütolf
Dear Pythonistas Hi Alan, yes, I typed it wrong(), "culpa mea". But the problem ist not quite solved, sorry to bother you further: Althoug I get a postive message from the command window: c:\Python27\Scripts>pip install beautifulsoup Collecting beautifulsoup Downloading BeautifulSoup-3.2.1