Installing lxml

For special installation instructions regarding MS Windows and MacOS-X, see the specific sections below.

Requirements

You need Python 2.4 or later.

Unless you are using a static binary distribution (e.g. from a Windows binary installer), you need to install libxml2 and libxslt, in particular:

• libxml2 2.6.21 or later. It can be found here: http://xmlsoft.org/downloads.html
  • We recommend libxml2 2.7.8 or a later version.
  • If you want to use XPath, do not use libxml2 2.6.27.
  • If you want to use the feed parser interface, especially when parsing from unicode strings, do not use libxml2 2.7.4 through 2.7.6.
• libxslt 1.1.15 or later. It can be found here: http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/downloads.html
  • We recommend libxslt 1.1.26 or later.

Newer versions generally contain fewer bugs and are therefore recommended. XML Schema support is also still worked on in libxml2, so newer versions will give you better compliance with the W3C spec.

Installation

Unless you are on MS Windows, the best way to install lxml is to get the pip package management tool and run the following as super-user (or administrator):

To install a specific version, either download the distribution manually and let pip install that, or pass the desired version to pip:

For MS Windows, we no longer provide binary distributions. Also see the related FAQ entry. If you fail to build lxml on your MS Windows system from the signed and tested sources that we release, consider using the unofficial Windows binaries that Christoph Gohlke generously provides.

On Linux (and most other well-behaved operating systems), pip will manage to build the source distribution as long as libxml2 and libxslt are properly installed, including development packages, i.e. header files, etc. Use your package management tool to look for packages like libxml2-dev or libxslt-devel if the build fails, and make sure they are installed. Alternatively, setting STATIC_DEPS=true will download and build both libraries automatically.

On MacOS-X, use the following to build the source distribution, and make sure you have a working Internet connection, as this will download libxml2 and libxslt in order to build them:

Building lxml from sources

If you want to build lxml from the GitHub repository, you should read how to build lxml from source (or the file doc/build.txt in the source tree). Building from developer sources or from modified distribution sources requires Cython to translate the lxml sources into C code. The source distribution ships with pre-generated C source files, so you do not need Cython installed to build from release sources.

If you have read these instructions and still cannot manage to install lxml, you can check the archives of the mailing list to see if your problem is known or otherwise send a mail to the list.

Using lxml with python-libxml2

If you want to use lxml together with the official libxml2 Python bindings (maybe because one of your dependencies uses it), you must build lxml statically. Otherwise, the two packages will interfere in places where the libxml2 library requires global configuration, which can have any kind of effect from disappearing functionality to crashes in either of the two.

To get a static build, either pass the —static-deps option to the setup.py script, or run pip with the STATIC_DEPS or STATICBUILD environment variable set to true, i.e.

The STATICBUILD environment variable is handled equivalently to the STATIC_DEPS variable, but is used by some other extension packages, too.

MS Windows

Most MS Windows systems lack the necessarily tools to build software, starting with a C compiler already. Microsoft leaves it to users to install and configure them, which is usually not trivial and means that distributors cannot rely on these dependencies being available on a given system. In a way, you get what you’ve paid for and make others pay for it.

Due to the additional lack of package management of this platform, it is best to link the library dependencies statically if you decide to build from sources. For that, use the binary distribution of libxml2 and libxslt. You need both libxml2 and libxslt, as well as iconv and zlib, which you can get from the same download site. Further build instructions are in the source build documentation.

MacOS-X

A macport of lxml is available. Try something like port install py25-lxml .

If you want to use a more recent lxml release, you may have to build it yourself. Apple doesn’t help here, as MacOS-X is so badly maintained by them that the pre-installed system libraries of libxml2 and libxslt tend to be horribly outdated, and updating them is everything but easy. In any case, you cannot run lxml with the system provided libraries, so you have to use newer libraries.

Installing lxml

lxml is generally distributed through PyPI.

Most Linux platforms come with some version of lxml readily packaged, usually named python-lxml for the Python 2.x version and python3-lxml for Python 3.x. If you can use that version, the quickest way to install lxml is to use the system package manager, e.g. apt-get on Debian/Ubuntu:

For MacOS-X, a macport of lxml is available. Try something like

To install a newer version or to install lxml on other systems, see below.

Requirements

You need Python 2.7 or 3.4+.

Unless you are using a static binary distribution (e.g. from a Windows binary installer), lxml requires libxml2 and libxslt to be installed, in particular:

• libxml2 version 2.9.2 or later.
• libxslt version 1.1.27 or later.
  • We recommend libxslt 1.1.28 or later.

Newer versions generally contain fewer bugs and are therefore recommended. XML Schema support is also still worked on in libxml2, so newer versions will give you better compliance with the W3C spec.

To install the required development packages of these dependencies on Linux systems, use your distribution specific installation tool, e.g. apt-get on Debian/Ubuntu:

For Debian based systems, it should be enough to install the known build dependencies of the provided lxml package, e.g.

Installation

If your system does not provide binary packages or you want to install a newer version, the best way is to get the pip package management tool (or use a virtualenv) and run the following:

If you are not using pip in a virtualenv and want to install lxml globally instead, you have to run the above command as admin, e.g. on Linux:

To install a specific version, either download the distribution manually and let pip install that, or pass the desired version to pip:

To speed up the build in test environments, e.g. on a continuous integration server, disable the C compiler optimisations by setting the CFLAGS environment variable:

(The option reads «minus Oh Zero», i.e. zero optimisations.)

MS Windows

For MS Windows, recent lxml releases feature community donated binary distributions, although you might still want to take a look at the related FAQ entry. If you fail to build lxml on your MS Windows system from the signed and tested sources that we release, consider using the binary builds from PyPI or the unofficial Windows binaries that Christoph Gohlke generously provides.

Linux

On Linux (and most other well-behaved operating systems), pip will manage to build the source distribution as long as libxml2 and libxslt are properly installed, including development packages, i.e. header files, etc. See the requirements section above and use your system package management tool to look for packages like libxml2-dev or libxslt-devel . If the build fails, make sure they are installed.

Alternatively, setting STATIC_DEPS=true will download and build both libraries automatically in their latest version, e.g. STATIC_DEPS=true pip install lxml.

MacOS-X

On MacOS-X, use the following to build the source distribution, and make sure you have a working Internet connection, as this will download libxml2 and libxslt in order to build them:

Building lxml from dev sources

If you want to build lxml from the GitHub repository, you should read how to build lxml from source (or the file doc/build.txt in the source tree). Building from developer sources or from modified distribution sources requires Cython to translate the lxml sources into C code. The source distribution ships with pre-generated C source files, so you do not need Cython installed to build from release sources.

If you have read these instructions and still cannot manage to install lxml, you can check the archives of the mailing list to see if your problem is known or otherwise send a mail to the list.

Using lxml with python-libxml2

If you want to use lxml together with the official libxml2 Python bindings (maybe because one of your dependencies uses it), you must build lxml statically. Otherwise, the two packages will interfere in places where the libxml2 library requires global configuration, which can have any kind of effect from disappearing functionality to crashes in either of the two.

To get a static build, either pass the —static-deps option to the setup.py script, or run pip with the STATIC_DEPS or STATICBUILD environment variable set to true, i.e.

The STATICBUILD environment variable is handled equivalently to the STATIC_DEPS variable, but is used by some other extension packages, too.

Source builds on MS Windows

Most MS Windows systems lack the necessarily tools to build software, starting with a C compiler already. Microsoft leaves it to users to install and configure them, which is usually not trivial and means that distributors cannot rely on these dependencies being available on a given system. In a way, you get what you’ve paid for and make others pay for it.

Due to the additional lack of package management of this platform, it is best to link the library dependencies statically if you decide to build from sources, rather than using a binary installer. For that, lxml can use the binary distribution of libxml2 and libxslt, which it downloads automatically during the static build. It needs both libxml2 and libxslt, as well as iconv and zlib, which are available from the same download site. Further build instructions are in the source build documentation.

Source builds on MacOS-X

If you are not using macports or want to use a more recent lxml release, you have to build it yourself. While the pre-installed system libraries of libxml2 and libxslt are less outdated in recent MacOS-X versions than they used to be, so lxml should work with them out of the box, it is still recommended to use a static build with the most recent library versions.

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How to install lxml on Windows

I’m trying to install lmxl on my Windows 8.1 laptop with Python 3.4 and failing miserably.

First off, I tried the simple and obvious solution: pip install lxml . However, this didn’t work. Here’s what it said:

So then I looked on this great and helpful thing called The Internet and a lot of people have the same error of needing libxml2 and libxlst . They recommend a guy called Christoph Gohlke’s page where he provides some sort of binary thingy for a bunch of packages. You can find it here (quicklink to the lxml part).

So after I gave up on trying to find libxml2 and libxslt for pip, I decided to go there, and found an absolute ton of downloads. I know I need a 64-bit one, but I have no idea which » cp » I need.

So an answer either giving me a solution on the pip method or the Gohlke index method would be great.

7 Answers 7

Or you can also go to Christoph’s Gohlke’s Python page and then download the right lxml file. (Generally since I use python 3.4 and I have a windows, I download the lxml-3.4.4-cp34-none-win32.whl)

Go to the folder it is in. Click in the background (so nothing is selected), then leftshift + rightclick at the same time and click on open command window. Then type C:/Python34/Scripts/pip install «NAME OF THE FILE YOU JUST DOWNLOADED.whl»

In this case it would be C:/Python34/Scripts/pip install «lxml-3.4.4-cp34-none-win32.whl»

Now hit enter. This worked well for me, and after you type the quote you can also press tab and it should fill the right one for you.

First, following the comments, I downloaded the lxml-3.4.2-cp34-none-win_amd64.whl file and tried to open it with a pip install , but it just told me it wasn’t a valid wheel file on my system or something.

Then, I downloaded the win_32 file and it worked! Maybe it’s because I have an Intel processor and AMD64 is, unsurprisingly, only for AMD processors.

Looks like today in 2018, lxml can be installed from PyPI:

These instructions are for Windows7 or Windows8 with Python3.4.

However, they should work for various versions as the releases of python and other respective prerequisites change/evolve: