Marcello: Install the precompiled lxml package from here:
http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ OK I install lxml as suggested then I reinstalled-over epubmaker and got some warning messages (see immediate below.) Then I tried running epubmaker --help and it exits clean with a meaningful help message. Then I tried running epubmaker with file and some guessed parms (see after "=====") and got traceback sometime after epubmaker at least had discovered iso char set, I think: [I also tried your suggestion re PIL out of desperation and that didn't change the resulting error messages at all, except when over-installing epubmaker once-again after PIL I don't get any installation warning messages. Same runtime error messages though.] C:\Users\Jim\epubmaker-0.3.18\epubmaker-0.3.18\epubmaker>c:\python27\scripts \eas y_install.exe epubmaker Searching for epubmaker Best match: epubmaker 0.3.18 Processing epubmaker-0.3.18-py2.7.egg epubmaker 0.3.18 is already the active version in easy-install.pth Installing epubmaker-script.py script to c:\python27\Scripts Installing epubmaker.exe script to c:\python27\Scripts Installing epubmaker.exe.manifest script to c:\python27\Scripts Using c:\python27\lib\site-packages\epubmaker-0.3.18-py2.7.egg Processing dependencies for epubmaker Searching for docutils>=0.7 Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/docutils/ Reading http://docutils.sourceforge.net/ Best match: docutils 0.8.1 Downloading http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/docutils/docutils-0.8.1.tar.gz?do wnload Processing docutils-0.8.1.tar.gz Running docutils-0.8.1\setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir c:\users\jim\appdata\loc al\temp\easy_install-tjtcmd\docutils-0.8.1\egg-dist-tmp-shqd8r warning: no files found matching 'MANIFEST' warning: no previously-included files matching '.cvsignore' found under director y '*' warning: no previously-included files matching '*.pyc' found under directory '*' warning: no previously-included files matching '*~' found under directory '*' warning: no previously-included files matching '.DS_Store' found under directory '*' zip_safe flag not set; analyzing archive contents... docutils.parsers.rst.directives.misc: module references __file__ docutils.writers.html4css1.__init__: module references __file__ docutils.writers.latex2e.__init__: module references __file__ docutils.writers.odf_odt.__init__: module references __file__ docutils.writers.pep_html.__init__: module references __file__ docutils.writers.s5_html.__init__: module references __file__ Adding docutils 0.8.1 to easy-install.pth file Installing rst2html.py script to c:\python27\Scripts Installing rst2latex.py script to c:\python27\Scripts Installing rst2man.py script to c:\python27\Scripts Installing rst2odt.py script to c:\python27\Scripts Installing rst2odt_prepstyles.py script to c:\python27\Scripts Installing rst2pseudoxml.py script to c:\python27\Scripts Installing rst2s5.py script to c:\python27\Scripts Installing rst2xetex.py script to c:\python27\Scripts Installing rst2xml.py script to c:\python27\Scripts Installing rstpep2html.py script to c:\python27\Scripts Installed c:\python27\lib\site-packages\docutils-0.8.1-py2.7.egg Finished processing dependencies for epubmaker ====== C:\Users\Jim\epubmaker-0.3.18\epubmaker-0.3.18\epubmaker>c:\Python27\python. exe epubmaker.py -v --output-dir=testOut --make=epub http://www.gutenberg.org/files/ 28948/28948-h/28948-h.htm INFO:root:Got charset ISO-8859-1 from html meta INFO:root:Trying charset iso-8859-1 ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "epubmaker.py", line 343, in <module> main () File "epubmaker.py", line 218, in main options) File "build\bdist.win32\egg\epubmaker\Spider.py", line 83, in parse parser.parse () File "build\bdist.win32\egg\epubmaker\parsers\HTMLParser.py", line 356, in par se # Overridable -- handle processing instruction File "build\bdist.win32\egg\epubmaker\parsers\HTMLParser.py", line 183, in tid y match = entityref.match(rawdata, i) File "c:\Python27\lib\subprocess.py", line 679, in __init__ errread, errwrite) File "c:\Python27\lib\subprocess.py", line 893, in _execute_child startupinfo) WindowsError: [Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified