Ipython doesn't work properly in git bash/mingw

[kj809]

In the shell for git 2.5.3 Ipython doesn't work properly with ipython 4.0.0. I tried both 64 and 32 bit git installations and the same problem persists - The Out[#] line doesn't show for ipython commands.

Some system details below:

Python 3.4.3 |Anaconda 2.3.0 (64-bit)| (default, Mar 6 2015, 12:06:10) [MSC v.1600 64 bit (AMD64)]
IPython 4.0.0 -- An enhanced Interactive Python.

I found an exe for git 1.9.5 and it works perfectly so I figure it's 2.5.3 that is the problem, rather than my installation of python. Just in case, here are my installed packages for python:

$ pip list
alabaster (0.7.3)
argcomplete (0.8.9)
astropy (1.0.3)
Babel (1.3)
bcolz (0.9.0)
beautifulsoup4 (4.3.2)
binstar (0.11.0)
bitarray (0.8.1)
blaze (0.8.0)
blz (0.6.2)
bokeh (0.9.0)
boto (2.38.0)
Bottleneck (1.0.0)
certifi (14.5.14)
cffi (1.1.0)
clyent (0.3.4)
colorama (0.3.3)
conda (3.17.0)
conda-build (1.14.1)
conda-env (2.4.2)
configobj (5.0.6)
cryptography (0.9.1)
Cython (0.22.1)
cytoolz (0.7.3)
datashape (0.4.5)
decorator (4.0.2)
docutils (0.12)
fastcache (1.0.2)
Flask (0.10.1)
greenlet (0.4.7)
h5py (2.5.0)
idna (2.0)
ipykernel (4.0.3)
ipython (4.0.0)
ipython-genutils (0.1.0)
itsdangerous (0.24)
jdcal (1.0)
jedi (0.8.1)
Jinja2 (2.8)
jsonschema (2.4.0)
jupyter-client (4.0.0)
jupyter-console (4.0.2)
jupyter-core (4.0.6)
llvmlite (0.5.0)
lxml (3.4.4)
MarkupSafe (0.23)
matplotlib (1.4.3)
menuinst (1.0.4)
mistune (0.7.1)
mock (1.0.1)
multipledispatch (0.4.7)
nbconvert (4.0.0)
nbformat (4.0.0)
networkx (1.9.1)
nltk (3.0.3)
nose (1.3.4)
notebook (4.0.5)
numba (0.19.1)
numexpr (2.4.3)
numpy (1.9.2)
odo (0.3.2)
openpyxl (1.8.5)
pandas (0.16.2)
path.py (0.0.0)
patsy (0.3.0)
pep8 (1.6.2)
pickleshare (0.5)
Pillow (2.8.2)
pip (7.1.2)
ply (3.6)
psutil (2.2.1)
py (1.4.27)
pyasn1 (0.1.7)
pycosat (0.6.1)
pycparser (2.14)
pycrypto (2.6.1)
pyflakes (0.9.2)
Pygments (2.0.2)
pyOpenSSL (0.15.1)
pyparsing (2.0.3)
pyreadline (2.0)
pytest (2.7.1)
python-dateutil (2.4.2)
pytz (2015.4)
pywin32 (219)
PyYAML (3.11)
pyzmq (14.7.0)
qtconsole (4.0.1)
requests (2.7.0)
rope-py3k (0.9.4-1)
runipy (0.1.3)
scikit-image (0.11.3)
scikit-learn (0.16.1)
scipy (0.15.1)
setuptools (18.1)
simplegeneric (0.8.1)
six (1.9.0)
snowballstemmer (1.2.0)
sockjs-tornado (1.0.1)
sphinx (1.3.1)
sphinx-rtd-theme (0.1.7)
spyder (2.3.5.2)
SQLAlchemy (1.0.5)
statsmodels (0.6.1)
sympy (0.7.6)
tables (3.2.0)
toolz (0.7.2)
tornado (4.2.1)
traitlets (4.0.0)
ujson (1.33)
Werkzeug (0.10.4)
wheel (0.26.0)
xlrd (0.9.3)
XlsxWriter (0.7.3)
xlwings (0.3.5)
xlwt (1.0.0)

[dscho]

Is this not a duplicate of #399, see in particular this comment?

[kj809]

Thanks for replying so quickly - is there any future plan to restore the
original functionality? As a complete newbie to building from source I'm
already running into problems trying to install winpty. With the previous
version of git/msys I was using it was sufficient to type ipython into the
console to have it running in command line mode - it just worked.

On 24 September 2015 at 19:43, Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]

wrote:

Is this not a duplicate of #399
#399, see in particular this
comment
#399 (comment)
?

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Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub
#436 (comment)
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[dscho]

Thanks for replying so quickly - is there any future plan to restore the
original functionality?

Not so fast. First you should look at the ticket I linked and follow the discussion. In particular, you will want to test whether the winpty method works for you and report back.

[dscho]

As a complete newbie to building from source I'm already running into problems trying to install winpty.

But it is already part of Git for Windows... So just running winpty ipython should do the trick. And if it does, you need to tell me. And if it does not, you need to tell me.

[kj809]

I'll have to get back to you on this on Monday because I'm away from that
machine over the weekend

On 25 September 2015 at 11:26, Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]

wrote:

As a complete newbie to building from source I'm already running into
problems trying to install winpty.

But it is already part of Git for Windows... So just running winpty
ipython should do the trick. And if it does, you need to tell me. And if
it does not, you need to tell me.

—
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub
#436 (comment)
.

[dscho]

I'll have to get back to you on this on Monday

Please do!

[kj809]

Just confirming that winpty ipython did the trick. It seems to be working fine now. Many thanks!