I use ipdb fairly often in a way to just jump to a piece of code that is isolated i.e. it is hard to write a real script that uses it. Instead I write a minimal tes
It's the problem with the recent version of IPython 5.1.0. You can check with your environment using the following code:
pip freeze | egrep -i '^i'
It will be resolved by downgraded to IPython==5.0.0.
pip install ipython==5.0.0
That works for me.