Install lxml

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lxml is one of the best ways of parsing XML in Python. It is not trivial to install on all platforms however.

Linux#

System Requirements#

$ sudo apt-get install libxslt1.1 libxslt1-dev libxml2-dev libxml2

Python Packages#

$ sudo pip install Cython
$ sudo pip install lxml

Mac#

Cython#

Install Cython 

sudo easy_install Cython

libxml2#

The version of libxml2 that comes with Leopard is too old. 

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/libxml2-2.7.1
make
sudo make install
cd /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages
sudo ln -s /usr/local/libxml2-2.7.1/lib/python2.5/site-packages/* .

libxslt#

The version of libxslt that comes with Leopard is too old. 

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/libxslt-1.1.24 --with-libxml-prefix=/usr/local/libxml2-2.7.1
make
sudo make install
cd /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages
sudo ln -s /usr/local/libxslt-1.1.24/lib/python2.5/site-packages/* .

lxml#

Download and install lxml 

sudo python setup.py install \
     --with-xml2-config=/usr/local/libxml2-2.7.1/bin/xml2-config \
     --with-xslt-config=/usr/local/libxslt-1.1.24/bin/xslt-config

Notes#

Mostly taken from

http://lsimons.wordpress.com/2008/08/31/how-to-install-lxml-python-module-on-mac-os-105-leopard/

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