Install Python BeautifulSoup on Windows8

Operating environment: Windows 8.1
Python: 2.7.6

During the installation, I used PIP to install, with the following command:

pip install beautifulsoup4

When running, the error is reported as follows:

Exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "J:Program Files (x86)PythonPython27libsite-packagespipbasecomm

.py", line 122, in main

    status = self.run(options, args)

  File "J:Program Files (x86)PythonPython27libsite-packagespipcommands

stall.py", line 278, in run

    requirement_set.prepare_files(finder, force_root_egg_info=self.bundle, bu

e=self.bundle)

  File "J:Program Files (x86)PythonPython27libsite-packagespipreq.py",

ne 1229, in prepare_files

    req_to_install.run_egg_info()

  File "J:Program Files (x86)PythonPython27libsite-packagespipreq.py",

ne 292, in run_egg_info

    logger.notify('Running setup.py (path:%s) egg_info for package %s' % (sel

etup_py, self.name))

  File "J:Program Files (x86)PythonPython27libsite-packagespipreq.py",

ne 265, in setup_py

    import setuptools

  File "buildbdist.win-amd64eggsetuptools__init__.py", line 11, in <modul

    from setuptools.extension import Extension

  File "buildbdist.win-amd64eggsetuptoolsextension.py", line 5, in <modul

  File "buildbdist.win-amd64eggsetuptoolsdist.py", line 15, in <module>

  File "buildbdist.win-amd64eggsetuptoolscompat.py", line 19, in <module>

  File "J:Program Files (x86)PythonPython27libSimpleHTTPServer.py", line

, in <module>

    class SimpleHTTPRequestHandler(BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler):

  File "J:Program Files (x86)PythonPython27libSimpleHTTPServer.py", line

8, in SimpleHTTPRequestHandler

    mimetypes.init() # try to read system mime.types

  File "J:Program Files (x86)PythonPython27libmimetypes.py", line 358, i

nit

    db.read_windows_registry()

  File "J:Program Files (x86)PythonPython27libmimetypes.py", line 258, i

ead_windows_registry

    for subkeyname in enum_types(hkcr):

  File "J:Program Files (x86)PythonPython27libmimetypes.py", line 249, i

num_types

    ctype = ctype.encode(default_encoding) # omit in 3.x!

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xb0 in position 1: ordin

not in range(128)
Storing debug log for failure in C:UsersAdministratorpippip.log

Solution: open the mimetypes.py file under C:\Python27\Lib and find approximately 256 lines

default_encoding = sys.getdefaultencoding()

To:

if sys.getdefaultencoding() != 'gbk':

    reload(sys)

    sys.setdefaultencoding('gbk')

default_encoding = sys.getdefaultencoding()

After successful installation, verify whether the installation is successful:

C:UsersAdministrator>python

Python 2.7.6 (default, Nov 10 2013, 19:24:24) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] on 32

Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

>>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

>>> exit()

If there is no error in "from bs4 import BeautifulSoup", the installation is successful; otherwise, similar error will be reported as follows:

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>

ImportError: No module named bs4