lxml on windows for python2.7 doesn't work

Question

I have installed lxml with .exe .

However, when I use it, it doesn't work.

So, how can I deal with this problem?

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BTW, when I didn't use .exe for installation, I couldn't install the package with !pip install lxml because libxml2 and libxslt couldn't be found. Are there any connections between them?

Answer 1

For MS Windows, recent lxml releases feature community donated binary distributions, although you might still want to take a look at the related FAQ entry. If you fail to build lxml on your MS Windows system from the signed and tested sources that we release, consider using the binary builds from PyPI or the unofficial Windows binaries that Christoph Gohlke generously provides.

If you do not want to deal with binary builds, I recommend you use Anaconda ,just download and install it.

Anaconda is the leading open data science platform powered by Python. The open source version of Anaconda is a high performance distribution of Python and R and includes over 100 of the most popular Python, R and Scala packages for data science.

Additionally, you'll have access to over 720 packages(contains lxml) that can easily be installed with conda, our renowned package, dependency and environment manager, that is included in Anaconda.