Which directory do I put python modules in?

Question

I'm new to Python.

I'm trying to install beautifulsoup. So far, I've installed pip.

From the beautifulsoup website it says:

To begin with, make sure that you have the necessary modules installed.

In the example below, we are using Beautiful Soup 4 and Requests on a system with Python 2.7 installed.

Okay, that's great - where is it asking me to place the modules? Do I put the downloaded items into python27/Scripts?

Okay, next:

Installing BeautifulSoup and Requests can be done with pip:

Here are the commands:

$ pip install requests
$ pip install beautifulsoup4 

I'm assuming my code would looks something like this from the python intepereter:

>>> import pip
>>> pip install requests
>>> pip install beautifulsoup4 

Where does it know to get 'requests' or 'beautifulsoup4'? That is my main question, I guess.

Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

first, pip install is to be used from command line. then, How do I install pip on Windows? might help. Just install pip from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pip. Then, add the path to your pip executable to your Path env. var. Then, just pip install requests and pip install beautifulsoup4 and it will work. pip just connects to its servers and fetches the package that was registered to the name you requested.