ImportError: No module named BeautifulSoup

// under egg error import packages python

Had this issue when you’ve been trying to run something like Funnelweb, and you hit an ImportError for BeautifulSoup?  You’re definitely not alone, because I just hit the same issue.  The answer is simple — just ensure that you don’t use BeautifulSoup 4 or above (this is still beta) — it uses a different namespace, specifically bs4. Thus, whilst you might have the BeautifulSoup egg satisfying your dependencies, any imports of this package are going to fail.

For me, I’m using buildout, so I just pinned my version of BeautifulSoup thusly:

[buildout]
...
versions = versions

[versions]
BeautifulSoup = 3.2.0

Now, we stop using BeautifulSoup 4.0 and everything works again.

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