test bs4 + lxml

gistfile1.py

from lxml.html import parse
url = 'http://www.fdic.gov/bank/individual/failed/banklist.html'
doc = parse(url)
print len(doc.xpath('.//table')) > 0

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from contextlib import closing
from urllib2 import urlopen
with closing(urlopen(url)) as f:
    soup = BeautifulSoup(f.read(), features='lxml')

print len(soup.find_all('table')) > 0

u should see 2 Trues print out

@wesm can u tell me what output u get here, when you get a chance?

oh i used to get this error when i had 2 versions of bs4 installed, since pip is dumb and allows you to install from source and from pypi, can u confirm that you don't have both installed?

for example

pip install beautifulsoup4
pip install -e 'bzr+lp:beautifulsoup#egg=beautifulsoup4'

will install two versions. i can't repro the test failure when i do that so that might not be the issue...alas

ok i've tried this on 32 and 64 bit ubuntu 12.04, arch linux latest and all tests pass. i'm going to try with anaconda

FINALLY i can repro this when using anaconda...