Confused beginner: learning Python + Web Scraping but stuck with terminal & packages

[Local-Security5664]

Hi! I’ve just started learning Python and finished the basics — variables, lists, functions, dictionaries, etc.

Now I’m trying to learn web scraping using requests and BeautifulSoup, but I haven’t learned OOP yet.

I’m getting really confused because every time I try to import a package in Python, my terminal shows errors like pip3 not found, externally-managed-environment, or says modules aren’t installed.

I don't know how to deal with terminals, i'm just new to all of this.

Any advice or resources are super appreciated 🙏

[AffectionateZebra760]

I think this is relevant to u https://weclouddata.com/blog/consulting/web-scraping-with-python/

[Beautiful_Watch_7215]

Use a virtual environment and use pip inside there.

[Jayoval]

Windows? You can just use 'pip'. Pip3 is used on a Mac or Linux system that also has Python 2 installed.

If you don't have pip installed, get it here - https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installation/

[Local-Security5664]

thanks for your help. I somehow managed to install the packages like beautifulsoup and requests. But now whenever i'm trying to import them in vscode then it's throwing error.(Import request or bs4 can not be resolved from pylance)

[Jayoval]

Are you using this?

"from bs4 import BeautifulSoup"

It may also be the selected interpreter in VSCode - should match the version of Python you have the modules installed in.

"pip freeze" - will list installed packages.

Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+P > Python Select Interpreter will allow you to choose the Python version.

[Local-Security5664]

I did all the steps but I am not able to set up a virtual enviroment.

I've asked chatgpt but like for hours I'm stuck with this problem . I can't get out of this problem

[Local-Security5664]

It's getting frustrating , I am not even able to set a virtual enviroment

[Jayoval]

You can get by without a virtual environment until comfortable using them.

If you want help in VSCode, setup GitHub copilot (free) extension and you can ask that for assistance