title: Error while installing BeautifulSoup
body: <p>My question here is two fold. I am trying to install BeautifulSoup, but facing the below error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Rahul-MacBook-Air:~ rahul$ sudo easy_install pip
  Password:
  Searching for pip
  Best match: pip 8.1.2
  Processing pip-8.1.2-py2.7.egg
  pip 8.1.2 is already the active version in easy-install.pth
  Installing pip script to /usr/local/bin
  Installing pip2.7 script to /usr/local/bin
  Installing pip2 script to /usr/local/bin
  
  Using /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-8.1.2-py2.7.egg
  Processing dependencies for pip
  Finished processing dependencies for pip
  
  Rahul-MacBook-Air:~ rahul$ pip install beautifulsoup4
  Collecting beautifulsoup4
    Using cached beautifulsoup4-4.5.1-py2-none-any.whl
  Installing collected packages: beautifulsoup4
  Exception:
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-8.1.2-py2.7.egg/pip/basecommand.py", line 215, in main
      status = self.run(options, args)
    File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-8.1.2-py2.7.egg/pip/commands/install.py", line 317, in run
      prefix=options.prefix_path,
    File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-8.1.2-py2.7.egg/pip/req/req_set.py", line 742, in install
      **kwargs
    File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-8.1.2-py2.7.egg/pip/req/req_install.py", line 831, in install
      self.move_wheel_files(self.source_dir, root=root, prefix=prefix)
    File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-8.1.2-py2.7.egg/pip/req/req_install.py", line 1032, in move_wheel_files
      isolated=self.isolated,
    File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-8.1.2-py2.7.egg/pip/wheel.py", line 346, in move_wheel_files
      clobber(source, lib_dir, True)
    File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-8.1.2-py2.7.egg/pip/wheel.py", line 317, in clobber
      ensure_dir(destdir)
    File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-8.1.2-py2.7.egg/pip/utils/__init__.py", line 83, in ensure_dir
      os.makedirs(path)
    File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/os.py", line 157, in makedirs
      mkdir(name, mode)
  OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/beautifulsoup4-4.5.1.dist-info'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Can somebody please tell me what am I doing wrong here ?</p>
  
  <p>My next question is related to the previous one. I have installed Python 3.5.2</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; print(sys.version)
  3.5.2 (v3.5.2:4def2a2901a5, Jun 26 2016, 10:47:25) 
  [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)]
  &gt;&gt;&gt; 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However on the terminal it shows me a different version:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Rahul-MacBook-Air:~ rahul$ python -V
  Python 2.7.10
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So when I try to install BeautifulSoup it starts pointing to Python 2.7 which I think is wrong. It should point to the latest Python version i.e. 3.5.2</p>
  
  <p>Also I have Python 2.7 pre-installed at <code>/usr/bin/python</code> and Python 3.5.2 is installed at <code>/usr/local/bin/python</code>.
  How do I default the Python version such that every time I open my terminal it is already pointing to Python 3.5.2</p>
  
  <p>Thanks,
  Rahul</p>