Installing ipython with readline on the mac

Question

I am using ipython on Mac OS 10.5 with python 2.5.1 (I would actually like to use ipython for 2.6.1, but it doesn\'t seem to be available?)

I installed ipython via e

Answer 1

An alternative if you don't want to use ports. Caution: This is not upgrade safe.

Install ipython and readline as normal:

sudo easy_install -f http://ipython.scipy.org/dist/ readline ipython

Find the full path to your readline egg. For python 2.6 this will probably be:

/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/readline-2.5.1-py2.6-macosx-10.3-fat.egg

Edit ipython with your favourite text editor:

vim `which ipython`

Before the final line in the file sys.exit, insert:

sys.path.insert(0,'PATH_TO_READLINE_EGG')

Save and exit (:wq).

Check readline is working correct:

ipython