Re_: Best way to run ipython inside of emacs shell?

[Yaroslav Bulatov]

> Hi,

Equis Uno wrote:

I use meta-x shell to start a shell and then once I see a shell
prompt I enter the python command and I get a well-behaved python
shell inside of emacs.

I'm trying to figure out the best way to run ipython inside of emacs.

I had the same problem. It has to do with ipython.el not finding the
IPython executable.

To fix it, open ipython.el, and replace line
(when (executable-find "ipython")
with
(when (executable-find "ipython.bat")

Next, add file ipython.bat to your path containing something like the
following:
C:\Python23\python.exe "C:\Program Files\IPython\IPython_shell.py"

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work right on windows. The prompts
are missing so it's almost unusable.

Yaroslav

[Fernando Perez]

Yaroslav Bulatov wrote:

Equis Uno wrote:

> I use meta-x shell to start a shell and then once I see a shell
> prompt I enter the python command and I get a well-behaved python
> shell inside of emacs.
>
> I'm trying to figure out the best way to run ipython inside of emacs.

I had the same problem. It has to do with ipython.el not finding the
IPython executable.

To fix it, open ipython.el, and replace line
(when (executable-find "ipython")
with
(when (executable-find "ipython.bat")

Next, add file ipython.bat to your path containing something like the
following:
C:\Python23\python.exe "C:\Program Files\IPython\IPython_shell.py"

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work right on windows. The prompts
are missing so it's almost unusable.

Are you having this problem with the emacs support stuff currently available
from the ipython site? There's a special python-mode.el in there which is
different from the default one shipped with emacs (because the maintainers have
ignored Alex Schmolck's patches for a long time).

That might help (or not, I have no way of testing under windows, though I know
it works ok in unix).

Best,

f