Lou Pecora wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Lou Pecora wrote: >> >> > I installed the SciPy superpackage and have pylab, matplotlib, scipy, >> > and numpy apparently running well. But I want to use matplotlib/pylab >> > interactively. The instructions suggest doing this in IPython. But >> > using ipython on the command line gives me an error. The system >> > doesn't >> > know the command. Apparently there is no ipython executable in one of >> > the bin directories. I thought the superpackage would add that >> > automatically, but I guess not. >> > >> > Can anyone tell me how to get ipython running on my MacOSX 10.4 system? >> >> This is just a guess - but did you check your >> >> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin > > > Just checked it. Nothing there for IPython.
Are you sure you checked in all possible locations - it might well be that e.g. the shipped python2.3 is under /System/Library/.... I can't check up on that myself, as at work I'm using Linux. Where it is depends on which python interpreter you used to compile scipy. And possibly it got installed under /usr/local/bin - this could be caused by scipy installing it there. >> directory for the ipython-binary? Usually, that will be the prefix of >> anything compiled/installed to framework-builds. So either you add that >> to your path, or create links to e.g. /usr/local/bin > > I'm not quite following this last suggestion. Can you explain more. _If_ the binary got installed there, you need to add the path to your PATH-environment, or create a link to a location that is in the path. For example, I have ln -s /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/bin/pydoc /usr/bin/pydoc2.4 on my system, to have the pydoc2.4 command available. You could also create an alias, of course. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list