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

I had the same problem, in my case the cause of it was that the directory: /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages was not added to the path when the virtual environment was created (I would like to know why)

In my case the following in the terminal solved the problem:

workon 'your_environment_here'
add2virtualenv /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages

Note: This assumes you are using virtualenvwrapper