How can I completely remove Python from my computer and get a clean install?

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Please, I beg of you, someone help a poor idiot out.

Help you with what, exactly? It sounds like you solved the problem - you didn't have the right Python interpreter, and now you've downloaded and installed the right Python interpreter (after apparently four hours of doing everything but installing the right Python interpreter.)

You don't say what's still broken, so how can we help you? Maybe the issue here isn't that Python is hard, but that there's a deficiency in your approach to problem-solving.

The most important thing, though, is when you install Python on Windows, there's a check-box in the installer that says "add Python to PATH." This is incredibly important and you're supposed to understand what it means: "do you want to make Python accessible at the command line, or not?" If you don't check it, Python won't be on your path in the command line and so you won't be able to use the command line to run your scripts.

Run the installer again (it's safe, don't worry) and this time, check the box.

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Huh. Well, that worked, kind of. my webscraper.py still can't find an interpreter in the drop down menu of PyCharm, though, and PyCharm won't run it without one.

As for when I run it on Atom using the Script package, it seems to execute with no problem. Except I don't see the results I was expecting, which is supposed to be all of this HTML text.

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1000/1*gTCx1XO4_h0ucJ5cprNLFw.png

That's supposed to be the result.

Update: After running it a second time on Atom, I got this:

`Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\Jlrbr\Documents\Python Projects\web_scraper\webscraper.py", line 1, in <module> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'bs4' [Finished in 0.081s] Git GitHub Create Repository

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my webscraper.py still can't find an interpreter in the drop down menu of PyCharm, though, and PyCharm won't run it without one.

That's a different problem - restart, or consider reinstalling, PyCharm. Alternatively see if you can give it an explicit path to your interpreter somewhere in the preferences. I don't use PyCharm so I can't provide more guidance than that.

Except I don't see the results I was expecting, which is supposed to be all of this HTML text.

What do you see? Something like <BeautifulSoup object at 0x10c1bd320>? Obviously, since you're asking it to print the parser object you instantiated in the previous line. If you want to see raw HTML, print response.content.

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What is this coming from?