Import BeautifulSoup

Question

To my understanding "import package.module" is same as "from package import module". But this is not behaving as expected in case of BeautifulSoup.

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup: This command works fine.

But,

import bs4.BeautifulSoup throws the following error

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'bs4.BeautifulSoup'

Any thoughts/help on this?

Answer 1

As colorspeed pointed out above, BeautifulSoup is a class therefore import bs4.BeautifulSoup will result in error. Instead use the syntax from bs4 import BeautifulSoup.