Getting “Could not find function xmlCheckVersion in library libxml2. Is libxml2 installed?” when installing lxml through pip

Install lxml from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#lxml for your python version. It’s a precompiled WHL with required modules/dependencies.

The site lists several packages, when e.g. using Win32 Python 3.11, use lxml‑4.9.0‑cp311‑cp311‑win32.whl.

Download the file, and then install with:

pip install C:\path\to\downloaded\file\lxml‑4.9.0‑cp311‑cp311‑win32.whl