ipython and readline

[Chris Jones]

Hi,

Just for the record, I had exactly the same problem as this yesterday…. py27-readline wasn't installed even though I had py27-ipython. Had to install it by hand.

Chris 

On 5 Dec 2011, at 6:46pm, Jean-François Caron wrote:

> On 2011-12-05, at 10:41 , Frank Schima wrote:
>> 
>> On Dec 5, 2011, at 11:06 AM, Jean-François Caron wrote:
>> 
>>> This happened after my latest round of selfupdate and upgrade outdated.  Previously ipython worked with no problems, but now if I start it up, I get an error message about readline, and something about libedit coming from Leopard (I am running Lion).  It recommends that I install readline, which is already installed from macports.  After the error message, I get an ipython prompt but the prompt itself is screwed up.  The regular python interpreter has no problems.  
>>> 
>>> See below for my terminal output when I tried the various commands.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> jfcaron at jfcaron-macbook:~$ ipython
>>> /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/utils/rlineimpl.py:96: RuntimeWarning: Leopard libedit detected - readline will not be well behaved including some crashes on tab completion, and incorrect history navigation. It is highly recommended that you install readline, which is easy_installable with: 'easy_install readline'
>>> RuntimeWarning)
>>> Python 2.7.2 (default, Dec  3 2011, 17:24:13) 
>>> Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> 
>>> IPython 0.11 -- An enhanced Interactive Python.
>>> ?         -> Introduction and overview of IPython's features.
>>> %quickref -> Quick reference.
>>> help      -> Python's own help system.
>>> object?   -> Details about 'object', use 'object??' for extra details.
>>> 34In[1;3[0;34][0^D
>>> Do you really want to exit ([y]/n)? y
>>> jfcaron at jfcaron-macbook:~$ port installed|grep readline
>>> readline @6.2.000_0+universal (active)
>>> jfcaron at jfcaron-macbook:~$ python
>>> Python 2.7.2 (default, Dec  3 2011, 17:24:13) 
>>> [GCC 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build 5658) (LLVM build 2335.15.00)] on darwin
>>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>>>> ^D
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Any suggestions would be appreciated, I'm hoping it's a simple "select" command that I need to issue, but it's strange that doing the regular port upgrade outdated would have broken this program.
>> 
>> What is the output of the following?
>> 
>> 	port installed py27-readline
> 
> Indeed py27-readline was not installed, after installing it the problem went away.  
> 
> I'm wondering how py27-readline went away, since it is a dependency of py27-ipython, which I was installed the whole time?
> 
> Jean-François
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