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BigBoy1337
BigBoy1337

Reputation: 4963

ImportError: No module named IPython.paths when running jupyter notebook?

I installed jupyter via: /usr/local/opt/python/bin/python2.7 -m pip install jupyter

this install ipython version 4.1.2. However, when I run jupyter notebook, I get: 

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/jupyter-notebook", line 7, in <module>
    from notebook.notebookapp import main
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/notebook/notebookapp.py", line 83, in <module>
    from IPython.paths import get_ipython_dir
ImportError: No module named IPython.paths

yet, when I run from IPython.paths import get_ipython_dir in the ipython shell directly it works fine. Also when I run /usr/local/opt/python/bin/python2.7 and then the same thing, it runs successfully. Additionally, when I check the sys.executable path in python I get /usr/local/opt/python/bin/python2.7

This doesn't make sense to me. How can Ipython and my normal python (both using /usr/local/opt/python/bin/python2.7) both run this successfully, but my jupyter, installed with that specific python, cannot run the command. Any suggestions?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 8470

Answers (2)

joko
joko

Reputation: 1

Upgrade ipython:

pip install ipython==5.3.0

If you cannot uninstall ipython, try this:

sudo -H pip install --ignore-installed -U ipython==5.3.0

Upvotes: 0

void
void

Reputation: 2642

I had the same problem. Just now this helped me. Someone might find this useful.

    from IPython.paths import get_ipython_dir
ImportError: No module named IPython.paths

So I was running Python 3 on Linux mint 17. I first uninstalled jupyter from my system using the command.

sudo -H pip3 uninstall jupyter

After successfully uninstalling I installed jupyter again with the following command. 

sudo -H pip3 install jupyter

And when I launched jupyter again using

jupyter notebook

The kernel didn't die or didn't restart. Everything works fine now. I hope atleast one person finds this useful.

Upvotes: 4

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