What's the difference between using easyintall-2.6 and easy install-2.7 to install ipython

Question

I install ipython on Mac OS X Lion following this: How to install iPython on Snow Leopard

As I doing this on my Mac sudo /usr/bin/easy_install-2.6 python

Turns out I originally have easy_install-2.5, 2.6, 2.7 installed!

Then I choose easy_install-2.7 to install python, it works.

But what if I install ipython with 2.5, 2.6 version of easy_install? What's going on behind this?

Answer 1

It will install IPython for the different versions of Python installed on the system. Starting IPython for each version will bring up a shell for the appropriate version of Python.