Import Error Due To Bs4 Vs Beautifulsoup

I am trying to use beautifulsoup compatible lxml and it is giving me an error: from lxml.html.soupparser import fromstring Traceback (most recent call last): File ''

Solution 1:

The error is caused by soupparser.py trying to import BeautifulSoup version 3 while you have version 4 installed. The module name was changed from BeautifulSoup to bs4 in version 4.

You can trick soupparser.py into importing version 4 by mapping the bs4 module to BeautifulSoup in sys.modules before importing soupparser:

import sys, bs4
sys.modules['BeautifulSoup'] = bs4

from lxml.html.soupparserimport fromstring

Solution 2:

There is now a version of soupparser that works with bs4. It's available here: https://github.com/lxml/lxml/blob/master/src/lxml/html/soupparser.py

Solution 3:

Try adding :

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

and make sure you have the correct version of BeautifulSoup for your system installed.