title: BeautifulSoup installed but not recognized when dev_appserver runs
body: <p><strong>Update</strong>  </p>
  
  <pre><code>By adding BeautifulSoup.py to my app source, this error was gone :)  
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thanks @Ned Deily, that took along time, but was fruitful  </p>
  
  <p><em><strong>Ignore from here</em></strong><br>
  I have just one instance of python 2.5 installed with BeautifulSoup, still no luck!, what I am I doing wrong, please help  </p>
  
  <pre><code>bash-3.2$ ls -ltr /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages
  total 1096
  -rw-r--r--   1 Harit  admin   66866 May 28  2006 BeautifulSoup.py
  -rw-r--r--   1 Harit  admin   26413 May 28  2006 BeautifulSoupTests.py
  -rw-rwxr--   1 root   admin     119 Sep 18  2006 README
  drwxr-xr-x  19 Harit  admin     646 Aug 20 23:58 django
  -rw-r--r--   1 Harit  admin    1228 Aug 20 23:58 Django-1.3-py2.5.egg-info
  -rw-r--r--   1 Harit  admin  333390 Aug 21 00:17 setuptools-0.6c11-py2.5.egg
  -rw-r--r--   1 Harit  admin      30 Aug 21 00:17 setuptools.pth
  -rw-r--r--   1 Harit  admin     215 Aug 21 00:22 easy-install.pth
  -rw-r--r--   1 Harit  admin   33196 Aug 21 00:23 BeautifulSoupTests.pyc
  -rw-r--r--   1 Harit  admin   67193 Aug 21 00:23 BeautifulSoup.pyc
  -rw-r--r--   1 Harit  admin     970 Aug 21 00:23 BeautifulSoup-3.0.0-py2.5.egg-info
  bash-3.2$ 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><em><strong>Ignore from here</em></strong></p>
  
  <p>I removed all versions of python from macport and system and re installed the python 2.7 version  </p>
  
  <pre><code>bash-3.2$ python
  Python 2.7.2 (v2.7.2:8527427914a2, Jun 11 2011, 15:22:34) 
  [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin
  Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
  &gt;&gt;&gt; import django
  &gt;&gt;&gt; from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
  &gt;&gt;&gt;   
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and all the paths also look good  </p>
  
  <pre><code>bash-3.2$ echo $PATH
  /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/git/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/opt/local/bin  
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and have just one version of python that has both <code>Django</code> and <code>BeautifulSoup</code> installed  </p>
  
  <pre><code>bash-3.2$ cd /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/
  Headers/   Mac/       Python     Resources/ bin/       include/   lib/       share/     
  bash-3.2$ cd /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/lib/python2.7/lib
  lib-dynload/ lib-tk/      lib2to3/     
  bash-3.2$ cd /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/lib/python2.7/
  Display all 641 possibilities? (y or n)
  bash-3.2$ ls /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/lib/python2.7/site-packages/
  BeautifulSoup-3.2.0-py2.7.egg-info  BeautifulSoupTests.pyc          easy-install.pth
  BeautifulSoup.py            Django-1.3-py2.7.egg-info       setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg
  BeautifulSoup.pyc           README                  setuptools.pth
  BeautifulSoupTests.py           django
  bash-3.2$ 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but still when I run <code>dev_appserver.py project</code> it says it can not import module <code>BeautifulSoup</code>  </p>
  
  <p>Please help  </p>
  
  <p>Thank you </p>
  
  <p><em><strong>Ignore from below</em></strong><br>
  I have BeautifulSoup installed on my mac and I can do the following:  </p>
  
  <pre><code>bash-3.2$ python
  Python 2.6.7 (r267:88850, Jul 27 2011, 11:54:59) 
  [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin
  Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
  &gt;&gt;&gt; from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
  &gt;&gt;&gt;   
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but when I run my djando app and try to run the code, it fails saying  </p>
  
  <pre><code>Error was: No module named BeautifulSoup  
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It seems I am using everything correctly  </p>
  
  <pre><code>bash-3.2$ which python
  /opt/local/bin/python
  
  lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin        9 Aug 16 13:55 python -&gt; python2.6  
  
  bash-3.2$ cd /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/
  BeautifulSoup-3.0.0-py2.6.egg-info                  ipython-0.11-py2.6.egg/
  BeautifulSoup.py                                    mercurial/
  BeautifulSoup.pyc                                   mercurial-1.8.3_20110502-py2.6.egg-info/
  BeautifulSoupTests.py                               nose-1.1.2-py2.6.egg/
  BeautifulSoupTests.pyc                              paramiko-1.7.6-py2.6.egg
  Django-1.3-py2.6.egg-info                           pip-1.0.2-py2.6.egg/
  MySQL_python-1.2.3-py2.6-macosx-10.6-universal.egg  pycrypto-2.3-py2.6-macosx-10.6-universal.egg
  README                                              pysqlite-2.6.3-py2.6.egg-info
  django/                                             pysqlite2/
  easy-install.pth                                    setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg
  easy_install                                        setuptools.pth
  easy_install-2.6                                    xlrd/
  hgext/                                              xlrd-0.6.1-py2.6.egg-info
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How can I resolve this issue<br>
  Thanks</p>