Not able to pip install pickle in python 3.6

python pickle
satyaki picture satyaki · Jan 27, 2018 · Viewed 127.8k times · Source

I am trying to run the following code:

import bs4 as bs
import pickle
import requests
import lxml

def save_sp500_tickers():
    resp = requests.get("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_S%26P_500_companies")
    soup = bs.BeautifulSoup(resp.text, "html5lib")
    table = soup.find("table", { "class" : "wikitable sortable"}) 
    # print(soup)
    # print(soup.table)

    tickers = []
    for row in table.findAll("tr")[1:]:
        ticker = row.findAll("td")[0].text
        tickers.append(ticker)
    with open("sp500tickers.pickle","wb") as f:
        pickle.dump(tickers, f)
    print(tickers)
#   return tickers
# save_sp500_tickers()

It does not throw any error but I realized the pickle module is not installed. I tried to install it via pip and got the following error:-

D:\py_fin>pip install pickle
Collecting pickle
  Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pickle (from versions:
 )
No matching distribution found for pickle

How do we install pickle in python 3.6 (32-bit)?

Answer

sophros picture sophros · Jan 27, 2018

pickle module is part of the standard library in Python for a very long time now so there is no need to install it via pip. I wonder if you IDE or command line is not messed up somehow so that it does not find python installation path. Please check if your %PATH% contains a path to python (e.g. C:\Python36\ or something similar) or if your IDE correctly detects root path where Python is installed.

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