Hi,
Short version ============== I have a system with ipython installed by my Ubuntu distribution I created a virtualenv with > virtualenv ~/myenv I installed ipython > pip install ipython --upgrade When using ipython I notice, that it does import the modules from my default python setup and not from my virtualenv. Why? What could I have done differently? Long version =================== I created a virtualenv with virtualenv ~/myenv THis inherits my machines site packages. The reason I'm not using virutalenv --no-site-packages ~/myenv is that I would like to use some of the site packages, in particular some, that I don't want to compile due to huge package dependencies. Small problem is, that if I run ipython in a virtualenv it will still call /usr/bin/ipython and if I check the modules, that I import I seem to import the modules of my default environment and not the ones of my virtualenv. So I decided I will install my own version of ipython in my virtualenv The output if pip install ipython is a little confusing. > Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): ipython in > /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6 As I am a normal user and I don't have permissions to overwrite /usr/lib I decided to just give it a try and hope it will install in my virtualenv path and not in /usr/lib/... After running > pip install ipython --upgrade I have my own version of ipython. However when calling and using it I notice it still imports the modules from my default python and not from my virtualenv? Why does ipython ignore the virtualenv's settings? I know there are workarounds, but I wondered why it doesn't work out of the box. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list