IPython import failure and python sys.path in general

Question

I\'m following this post to make one ipython rule all the virtualenvs.

From what I understand, the main idea of the post is that when in a virtualenv, ipython can no

Answer 1

IPython seems to work now!

Because ipython can not find simplegeneric. I tried to locate simplegeneric and found simplegeneric is in '/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7'. After '/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7' being added, ipython works fine.

Jeff Tratner's comment really helps!