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@admin Thanks for explaning the rationale, it makes sense now. I was lost on the web scraping module because I couldn't get BeautifulSoup4 to install and also you used some code that you didn't explain - but now you said I don't need to understand it right now I am more relaxed.

Then there was mention of python virtual environments and setting them up and I was very confused as this is not covered in the traning moduel yet. I will continue with the course, but I do like to try the exercises if I can. Thanks

@google-rayazsiddiqi It is very normal not to remember all function names; you start memorizing them when you use them more and more in your code. 

The virtual environment is not covered since the course isn't concerned with it. However, it's very easy to set up, and the main reason to use it is that sometimes, as you've installed a lot of modules, some might affect others and won't work properly. So, a virtual environment is like a new machine with no previously installed modules.

@google-rayazsiddiqi you can schedule time with me to discuss in person or you can research on YouTube what you don't understand.

@ssadvisor many thanks for that, is there a charge for the 121 session? What time zone are you in...I'm in UK?

@husein thank you, makes sense, how do you switch between virtual environments?

@google-rayazsiddiqi EDT or UMC -4:00

There is no charge.

@google-rayazsiddiqi, do you mean to activate the virtual environment? If that's what you mean, and you named your virtual environment "venv" run the following:

venv\Scripts\activate

@ssadvisor Thanks I'll be in-touch!

I tried this code:

An am getting this error, seems it cant find the requests module!

File "c:\Users\rayaz\web scraping.py", line 2, in <module>
import requests
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'requests'

@google-rayazsiddiqi https://pypi.org/project/requests/

@ssadvisor thanks how do I install this package...do I go to the URL you sent and download to my machine. Will the py script automatically locate it when I put in "Install requests"

The link I've given is to the documentation for the package including the instructions on how to install it. 

pip install requests

@ssadvisor super it's working now