Trouble installing TextBlob for Python

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I am new to programming, and I'm trying to install the TextBlob library for Python to help me do some stuff. Sadly, I'm having trouble installing TextBlob, let alone use it. I am using Windows, which seems to make things more difficult. I wish I could just run the Linux commands or whatever they are that everybody uses. Anyway

Here is what I have done so far:

Forked the Textblob program from here.
Copied the entire repository to my desktop, and opened the folder up.
Using Command Prompt, ran "Python C:\Users...\setup.py install"

Command Prompt spits back-

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Sam\Desktop\TextBlob\setup.py", line 56, in <module>
    __version__ = find_version("textblob/__init__.py")
  File "C:\Users\Sam\Desktop\TextBlob\setup.py", line 45, in find_version
    with open(fname, 'r') as fp:
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'textblob/__init__.py'

And I have no idea what to do or how to fix this. Shouldn't this fresh download of TextBlob have the ability to install? What am I messing up?

Why are you doing that rather than following the instructions in the readme, which say to run pip install -U textblob? — Daniel Roseman
– Daniel Roseman, Commented Dec 13, 2013 at 9:13
Hi Daniel, thank you for you help. I just installed setup tools and pip which was a struggle (found at this link pip-installer.org/en/latest/installing.html) but now I'm not sure where to run the command "pip install-U textblob". I typed it into Command prompt, and is it not recognized. When should I be putting this. Thanks very much — user3092966
– user3092966, Commented Dec 13, 2013 at 9:38
Hi Sasa, I did not have pip but I just installed it. Hopefully correctly :P — user3092966
– user3092966, Commented Dec 13, 2013 at 9:40

Steve Barnes · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-13 10:56:27Z

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You are expected to be in the directory when installing. Try:

cd C:\Users\Sam\Desktop\TextBlob
python setup.py install

BTW try to get out of the habit of saving things to the desktop. You should only have short cuts on there especially on corporate machines as they often save the desktop on shutdown to the network and load it on startup - this slows things down a lot when there are files and directories on there.

answered Dec 13, 2013 at 10:56

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