[IPython-User] ipython and macosx 10.6

[Robert Kern]

On 1/12/11 10:36 AM, Peter Vince wrote:
> having installed ipython via macports I find that import of numpy gives me an
> architecture problem. Python (2.6.6) runs in 64 bit mode with apparently no way
> to force it into 32 bit mode (unlike using apple's python version (2.6.1) where
> I can use
> "arch -i386" to fire it off).
> Is there a way to force ipython to use Apple's python or to force 32 bit mode?

If you use Apple's python executable to run IPython's setup.py script to build 
and install IPython from source, then the ipython script that gets installed 
will use Apple's Python.

Alternately, you can build and install numpy from source using the same python 
executable from MacPorts, then it will have the same architecture as that python 
executable.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
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