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Amelio Vazquez-Reina
Amelio Vazquez-Reina

Reputation: 96448

Installing IPython 0.12 on Windows 7 64

I read the installation notes here. The installation notes say that for Windows 7 64 I should probably follow this method:

Install from source, but using setuptools (python setupegg.py install).

So I first installed Python 2.7.2 using the official binaries: python-2.7.2.amd64.msi and later downloaded ipython-0.12-py2.7.egg which I understand has the source for IPython.

However, I could not find any file called setupegg.py after decompressing ipython-0.12-py2.7.egg. Is this file part of the .egg file I downloaded or should I get it from somewhere else?

Also, is there anything else I need to install in order to use the new IPython notebook?

Upvotes: 7

Views: 8108

Answers (1)

Thomas K
Thomas K

Reputation: 40390

I suggest you try methods 1 (easy_install ipython) or 2 (the exe installer) first. Note that in any case, you should install distribute first. (If you really want to use method 3, you'll need to get the source zip, not the egg.)

To run the notebook, you also need pyzmq and tornado. Both are on PyPI, or Christoph Gohlke has Windows installers of these and many other packages.

As a shortcut to all of this, you can use a Python distribution like EPD Free.

Upvotes: 7

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