Jupyter Notebook BeautifulSoup ImportError

Question

I am new to python dev and have recently installed a fresh, 64-bit version of anaconda (with python v. 2.7.12) yesterday (https://www.continuum.io/downloads#windows) on my windows 8 machine. I immediately launched the Jupyter Notebook instance that came with anaconda and expected that I be able to use BeautifulSoup. Upon executing this line in my notebook.ipynb file: from bs4 import BeautifulSoup I received an ImportError:

ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-12-cbb98e44f096> in <module>()
      9 #from yelp.oauth1_authenticator import Oauth1Authenticator
     10 
---> 11 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

C:\Users\xxx\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\bs4\__init__.py in <module>()
     33 import warnings
     34 
---> 35 from .builder import builder_registry, ParserRejectedMarkup
     36 from .dammit import UnicodeDammit
     37 from .element import (

C:\Users\xxx\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\bs4\builder\__init__.py in <module>()
    313 # to take precedence over html5lib, because it's faster. And we only
    314 # want to use HTMLParser as a last result.
--> 315 from . import _htmlparser
    316 register_treebuilders_from(_htmlparser)
    317 try:

C:\Users\xxx\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\bs4\builder\_htmlparser.py in <module>()
      8     ]
      9 
---> 10 from HTMLParser import HTMLParser
     11 
     12 try:

ImportError: cannot import name HTMLParser

What I've tried:

pip install HTMLParser
pip install bs4
Uninstalling and installing beautifulsoup4 and beautifulsoup packages available in the anaconda navigator.
conda install HTMLParser --> resulted in package not found on anaconda repos error
conda install bs4 --> resulted in package not found on anaconda repos error

I have been trying to get this set up working without virtual environments in the notebook. I thought it would be possible to get it working with the root env.

Any help with this issue would be much appreciated!

That's odd... HTMLParser should be in the standard library for Python 2.2+, and would only be renamed in Python 3 to html.parser. — user824425
Note: I've uninstalled all versions of python (2.7.12 and 3.5) before installing anaconda. — miniscem

miniscem miniscem · Accepted Answer · 2016-09-04T23:18:08

I just restarted my PC and Jupyter Notebook detected the HTMLParser module. Not sure what I did to actually fix it - but I'm guessing the answer is one of the following steps I listed in my original question then restarting and launching Jupyter again.

Jupyter Notebook BeautifulSoup ImportError

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