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From: "Dustin C. Hatch" <admiralnemo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] IPython with Python3 - what magic am I missing?
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 14:53:19
Message-Id: 51C3174C.308@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] IPython with Python3 - what magic am I missing? by Helmut Jarausch
1 On 6/20/2013 02:31, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > I'd like start IPython with Python3 as underlying Python interpretor.
5 > GenToo has some magic to invoke IPython which I don't understand.
6 >
7 > /usr/bin/ipython is a symlink to /usr/bin/python-exec which is a script
8 > invoking the binary /usr/bin/python-exec-c
9 >
10 > I don't have Python3 as standard Python version (too dangerous with
11 > Portage?)
12 >
13 > How can I convince IPython to use Python3?
14 >
15 > I've tried
16 > python3 /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/spyderlib/widgets/ipython.py
17 > but hits just quits without any visible action.
18 >
19 > Many thanks for a hint,
20 > Helmut
21 >
22 If you built dev-python/ipython with PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_2", then
23 there will be a /usr/bin/ipython-python3.2 script that will launch
24 IPython with the Python 3.2 interpreter, even if the default Python
25 implementation is 2.7.
26
27 --
28 ♫Dustin
29 http://dustin.hatch.name/

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Re: [gentoo-user] IPython with Python3 - what magic am I missing? Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de>