BeautifulSoup(html) not working, saying can't call module?

Question

import urllib2
import urllib
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup        # html
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulStoneSoup     # xml
import BeautifulSoup                


        

Answer 1

@Blair's answer has the right slant but I'd perform some things slightly differently, i.e.:

import BeautifulSoup
Soup = BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup

(recommended), or

import BeautifulSoup
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup as Soup

(not bad either).

Answer 2

Your import BeautifulSoup makes BeautifulSoup refer to the module, not the class as it did after from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup. If you're going to import the whole module, you might want to omit the from ... line or perhaps rename the class afterward:

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup 
Soup = BeautifulSoup
...
import BeautifulSoup
....
soup = Soup(html)

Answer 3

Install BeautifulSoup4
sudo easy_install BeautifulSoup4

Recommendation
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup