Simon Willison’s Weblog

28th January 2023

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TIL Installing lxml for Python on an M1/M2 Mac — I ran into this error while trying to run `pip install lxml` on an M2 Mac, inside a virtual environment I had intitially created using `pipenv shell`:

Posted 28th January 2023 at 6:58 am

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