I have an Academic license with Enthought Python Distribution, and I'm getting a strange error when I try to run ipython. Here is some of the behavior I'm seeing:
$ ipython
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Library/Frameworks/EPD64.framework/Versions/Current/bin/ipython", line 8, in <module>
from IPython import start_ipython
ImportError: cannot import name start_ipython
$ python
Enthought Python Distribution -- www.enthought.com
Version: 7.3-2 (64-bit)
Python 2.7.2 |EPD 7.3-2 (64-bit)| (default, Sep 7 2011, 16:31:15)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5493)] on darwin
Type "credits", "demo" or "enthought" for more information.
>>> import IPython
>>> IPython.start_ipython()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'start_ipython'
>>>
When I run the enpkg enstaller, it updated ipython and it looked like everything worked OK.
$ sudo enpkg ipython
prefix: /Library/Frameworks/EPD64.framework/Versions/7.2
No update necessary, 'ipython' is up-to-date.
ipython-1.1.0-6.egg was installed on: Sun Jan 19 23:57:27 2014
$ which ipython
/Library/Frameworks/EPD64.framework/Versions/Current/bin/ipython
$ which python
/Library/Frameworks/EPD64.framework/Versions/Current/bin/python
Any help or suggestions what I can do to get ipython to work again?
Ok after looking around, I found a problem where someone said another install of ipython might be causing problems. enpkg is trying to install ipython 1.1.0 but I still had 0.13.1 around. So I removed it via:
$ sudo rm -rf /Library/Frameworks/EPD64.framework/Versions/7.2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipython-0.13.1-py2.7.egg
Then it loaded with errors about kernmagic so:
$ sudo enpkg kernmagic
It somehow re-installed ipython 1.0
$ ipython
Python 2.7.2 |EPD 7.3-2 (64-bit)| (default, Sep 7 2011, 16:31:15)
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
IPython 1.0.0 -- An enhanced Interactive Python.
So simply re-trying the enpkg command installs the latest version.
$ sudo enpkg ipython
prefix: /Library/Frameworks/EPD64.framework/Versions/7.2
ipython-1.0.0-2.egg [removing]
12.84 MB [.................................................................]
Jinja2-2.6-2.egg [removing]
1.58 MB [.................................................................]
tornado-2.2-1.egg [removing]
1.42 MB [.................................................................]
tornado-3.1.1-1.egg [installing]
2.16 MB [.................................................................]
Jinja2-2.7.1-1.egg [installing]
1.62 MB [.................................................................]
ipython-1.1.0-6.egg [installing]
12.92 MB [.................................................................]
$ ipython
Python 2.7.2 |EPD 7.3-2 (64-bit)| (default, Sep 7 2011, 16:31:15)
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
IPython 1.1.0 -- An enhanced Interactive Python.
And now it runs without errors. So, hopefully that helps anyone else coming across these kinds of problems.