I've been having trouble with Python, iPython and the libraries. The following points show the chain of the problematics. I'm running Python 2.7 on Mac Lion.
I've tried several things that I've encountered from other blogposts. But none of them have helped, and also unfortunately I don't quite know what I'm doing with some of them. For example: I tried uninstalling and reinstalling ipython with easy_install and pip. I also tried reinstalling everything through homebrew, and modifying the path .bash_profile.
Okay quick fix:
which python
gives you /usr/bin/python
, right? Do
which ipython
and I bet that'll be /usr/local/bin/ipython
. Let's look inside:
Edit 9/7/16 -- The file now looks like this:
cat /usr/local/bin/ipython
#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import re
import sys
from IPython import start_ipython
if __name__ == '__main__':
sys.argv[0] = re.sub(r'(-script\.pyw|\.exe)?$', '', sys.argv[0])
sys.exit(start_ipython())
And mine works properly like this, but my situation isn't exactly like the OP's.
Original answer -- 9/30/13:
cat /usr/local/bin/ipython
#!/usr/bin/python
# EASY-INSTALL-ENTRY-SCRIPT: 'ipython==0.12.1','console_scripts','ipython'
__requires__ = 'ipython==0.12.1'
import sys
from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
if __name__ == '__main__':
sys.exit(
load_entry_point('ipython==0.12.1', 'console_scripts', 'ipython')()
)
Aha - open /usr/local/bin/ipython
in your editor (with privileges), and change the first line to
#!/usr/local/bin/python
save, start iPython, should say it's using the version you want now.