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Ville M. Vainio
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r1032 | Notes for Windows Users | ||
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| These are just minimal notes. The manual contains more detailed | ||||
| information. | ||||
| Requirements | ||||
| ------------ | ||||
| IPython runs under (as far as the Windows family is concerned): | ||||
| - Windows XP (I think WinNT/2000 are ok): works well. It needs: | ||||
| * Gary Bishop's readline from | ||||
| http://sourceforge.net/projects/uncpythontools. | ||||
| * This in turn requires Tomas Heller's ctypes from | ||||
| http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes. | ||||
| - Windows 95/98/ME: I have no idea. It should work, but I can't test. | ||||
| - CygWin environments should work, they are basically Posix. | ||||
| It needs Python 2.2 or newer. | ||||
| Installation | ||||
| ------------ | ||||
| Double-click the supplied .exe installer file. If all goes well, that's all | ||||
| you need to do. You should now have an IPython entry in your Start Menu. | ||||
| In case the automatic installer does not work for some reason, you can | ||||
| download the ipython-XXX.tar.gz file, which contains the full IPython source | ||||
| distribution (the popular WinZip can read .tar.gz files). After uncompressing | ||||
| the archive, you can install it at a command terminal just like any other | ||||
| Python module, by using python setup.py install'. After this completes, you | ||||
| can run the supplied win32_manual_post_install.py script which will add | ||||
| the relevant shortcuts to your startup menu. | ||||