Invalid BeautifulSoup syntax in Python 3.4 (after 2to3.py)
I am trying to install Beautiful Soup 4 in Python 3.4. I installed it from the command line (got an invalid syntax error because I didn't convert it), did the conversion from the 2to3.py
script to bs4
, and now I am getting a new invalid syntax error.
>>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#0>", line 1, in <module>
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
File "C:\Python34\bs4\__init__.py", line 30, in <module>
from .builder import builder_registry, ParserRejectedMarkup
File "C:\Python34\bs4\builder\__init__.py", line 4, in <module>
from bs4.element import (
File "C:\Python34\bs4\element.py", line 1213
print 'Running CSS selector "%s"' % selector
^
SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'
Any ideas?
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BeautifulSoup 4 makes it unnecessary to manually convert to run in Python 3. Instead, you're trying to run Python 2-only code; it seems that you failed to convert the codebase correctly.
From the BeautifulSoup 4 page :
Beautiful Soup 4 works in both Python 2 (2.6+) and Python 3.
The line that is now throwing the exception should read:
print('Running CSS selector "%s"' % selector)
The codebase uses Python 2 syntax, but the installer will setup.py
convert this to compatible Python 3 syntax for you. Remember to install the project with pip
:
pip install beautifulsoup4
or using the version pip
bundled with Python 3.4:
python3.4 -m pip install beautifulsoup4
or using easy_install
:
easy_install beautifulsoup4
If you only downloaded the tarball, at least run
python3.4 setup.py install
for the installer to convert the codebase correctly for you; the converted code is copied to your Python setup. You can discard the loaded source directory after running the command, see How the installation works .
Alternatively, run:
python3.4 setup.py build
and copy the directory build/lib
. Again, don't use the original source directory as it remains intact.
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