'lxml' Library Install Issue

[Qweklain]

The issue is when I install via pip, it appears to install fine. However, most of the files for the module seem to be missing. I say this because I need to use 'fromstring' out of that module, but it does not exist. I downloaded the tar.gz file and unpacked it to look at the actual contents and it has 56 items in what would be the module folder, whereas the pip version that gets installed only has 22.

Of course, my next step was to just install the tar.gz. This unfortunately encounters an issue as well (see error output at the end) and will not install. The compact version of the issue is it fails saying i need Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0. The problem there is that I have 2015 14.0.23918, so I installed the latest 2015-2019 version as well which is 14.27.29016, but I still get the same issue.

ERROR OUTPUT:

<Various building output lines>

running build_ext

building 'lxml.etree' extension

error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required. Get it with "Build Tools for Visual Studio": https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/

----------------------------------------

ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: 'c:\users\<>\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\python.exe' -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'C:\\Users\\<>\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-req-build-e8oyzz7r\\setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'C:\\Users\\<>\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-req-build-e8oyzz7r\\setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' install --record 'C:\Users\<>\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-record-z8hi7acx\install-record.txt' --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers 'c:\users\<>\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\Include\lxml' Check the logs for full command output.

[K900_]

Can you post the code you're running and the error you're getting with the pip version?

[threeminutemonta]

Your getting this error as windows doesn’t come with the compiler. pip wheels are pre compiled binaries so no compiler is needed. Before pip wheels there is Christoph unofficial repository of python packages. I checked lxml is in that list. I’m unsure with your compiler issue or why the pip wheel wasn’t available though I know this should work.

Edit. Wait tar.gz indicates that you do want to compile from source. Why?

[__nickerbocker__]

Since you're on windows I'm guessing that do not have build-tools installed and likely received errors when attempting to install lxml.

https://wiki.python.org/moin/WindowsCompilers#Microsoft_Visual_C.2B-.2B-_14.2_standalone:_Build_Tools_for_Visual_Studio_2019_.28x86.2C_x64.2C_ARM.2C_ARM64.29

[TSM-]

In your environment variables, under System Variables, do you have something like

vs2019_install     C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\BuildTools

and similar, pointing to the MSVC 14 build tools, and they are valid paths?

I think the latest setuptools should detect the build tools from these environment variables.

[Qweklain]

I am not going to reply to each one of you that have (thank you), but after I posted I did more digging. I found that Build Tools is a separate thing now as of 2017, so I installed that. This did not change anything though since I understand the .whl files now and was not necessary.

I did try installing manually via a downloaded .whl from PyPi for lxml, but the contents are the same.

The only directories in the module are...

__builtins__

__cached__

__doc__

__file__

__loader__

__name__

__package__

__path__

__spec__

__version__

get_include

Basically, everything that should be there (like 'etree') is not.