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How to refer a project to install package in PyDev

I downloaded lxml-3.4.4-cp27-none-win_amd64.whl from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/, then put it in D:\My Documents\lxml. After that I opened the Windows CMD and changed directory to D:\My Documents\lxml and then did:

>>pip install --index-url http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ lxml-3.4.4-cp27-none-win_amd64.whl
unpacking d:\my documents\lxml\lxml-3.4.4-cp27-none-win_amd64.whl
Installing collected packages: lxml
Successfully installed lxml
Cleaning up...

How do I now refer to this in an Eclipse/PyDev project?

Edit: (getting closer)

From https://pypi.python.org/pypi/lxml/3.5.0 download lxml-3.5.0.win-amd64-py2.7.exe (md5)

Run this exe, installing to Python Directory: C:\Python27\

Eclipse/PyDev project Python27LibSitePackages now contains lxml package and lxml-3.5.0.py2.7.egg-info

Create PyDev project from C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages as suggested by @caot below. This project now contains lxml package and lxml-3.5.0.py2.7.egg-info.

In the project that I want to use lxml, I go to Properties > Project References and include the SitePackages project by checking the box.

Still get the error NameError: global name 'etree' is not defined

Go to Project Properties > External Libraries > Add source folder C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\lxml

Still get the error NameError: global name 'etree' is not defined

Edit 2:
Under C:\Python27\site-packages, I do not see etree.dll. There is:

etree.pyd
lxml.etree_api.h
lxml.etree.h
dtree_defs.h
etreepublic.pxd

Edit 3: The answer seems to be:

  • Download .exe (as stated by @caot)
  • Be sure that only C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages should be in PYTHONPATH, as @Zabio Zadrozny pointed out (via Properites > PyDev-PYTHONPATH > External Libraries > Add source folder)
  • Restart Eclipse (as @caot said) a few times until it takes.
Solution

  • Linux: download lxml-3.5.0.tar.gz, and run: python setup.py install

    Windows: install lxml-3.5.0.win-amd64-py2.7.exe

    $ python
Python 2.7.5 (default, May 15 2013, 22:44:16) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import lxml
>>> from lxml import etree
>>> etree.LXML_VERSION
(3, 5, 0, 0)
>>>