IPython on Leopard

04 Oct 2008
Posted by Jeet Sukumaran

IPython is an incredible Python shell. It really has to be experienced to be appreciated, but the autocompletion alone makes it worth installing. Unfortunately, the ugly business of non-standard readline in OS X makes the out-of-the-box installation not quite as nice as it could be. Fortunately, the fix is easy, and is described here.

In brief:

$ sudo easy_install http://www.jaraco.com/ASP/eggs/setuptools-0.6c8_svn15fix.egg
$ sudo easy_install readline

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