Dave Merrill wrote: > Hi, I'm new to python, and ipython, but not to programming, having trouble > getting ipython installed on windows 2000, python 233. Any help would be > much appreciated; I'm sure I'm being some basic flavor of dense...
First of all, rest assured that it does work (and quite easily) so welcome to Python and iPython and I hope the going's a bit smoother as you go along. > Then downloaded ipython-0.6.6.zip and unzipped it. When I double-click > setup.py, I get only a brief wait cursor; nothing else happens, and > importing ipython as a test fails. First of all, ipython isn't really an import into python; you run it and it runs python (if you understand me). So when you've installed it, I think it puts an item on your start menu. On linux, it puts an executable ipython onto your path. I've just downloaded and run the setup.py, and it does create a Start Menu item which will start iPython. Look out for that and see if it does the business. > Both files in the scripts dir, ipython and pycolor, have no filename > extension, which seems odd to my newbie eye. I tried renaming them to .py, > still no difference. This is a unixism. Some unix types decry the use of file extensions because the information the extension gives -- which executable program to use -- is already embedded in the first line of a file. > > My apologies for this basic question, and my no doubt ignorant flailing > about. Very much looking forward to getting this working. > > Thanks, > > Dave Merrill Good luck and happy hunting TJG -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
