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

In my case, it was a package higher up in my customized Python path named "path" that was causing the ImportError from:

import IPython.external.path as path

See https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/3994