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

For me, the solution was to upgrade IPython from 0.13.2 to the currently newest 4.0.0.

Answer 2

If you install ipython3 using apt-get, you would not face any problems like that.

Instead of ipython, you should type ipython3 on the terminal.

For Python 2 use ipython2.

Answer 3

pip install ipython instead of apt-get install ipython. The former installs into the virtualenv, the latter installs into your system python packages.