No version for 64 bit Windows

[Ibrahim Awwal]

When trying to install IPython on Windows Vista 64 bit, the installer errors out because it can't find a Python installation in the registry. I have Python 2.6.2 64 bit installed on my computer. According to this[1] it's because IPython is 32 bit and so it can't work with the 64 bit Python installation. Is there an easy way to fix this, eg. can I just recompile it myself somehow?

[1] http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/529c0023fb22922a

[Ville M. Vainio (villemvainio)]

On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Ibrahim Awwal <email address hidden> wrote:

> I have Python 2.6.2 64 bit installed on my computer.  According to
> this[1] it's because IPython is 32 bit and so it can't work with the 64
> bit Python installation. Is there an easy way to fix this, eg. can I
> just recompile it myself somehow?

Just get the source distribution and run "setup.py install". Or run
ipython.py directly from the source.

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[Brian Granger (ellisonbg)]

Just doing python setup.py install on Windows won't give you a working
IPython as the command line scripts won't be installed properly. If
you want to install from source on Windows, install setuptools and
then do:

python setupegg.py install

Cheers,

Brian

On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Ville M. Vainio <email address hidden> wrote:
> On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Ibrahim Awwal
> <email address hidden> wrote:
>
>> I have Python 2.6.2 64 bit installed on my computer.  According to
>> this[1] it's because IPython is 32 bit and so it can't work with the 64
>> bit Python installation. Is there an easy way to fix this, eg. can I
>> just recompile it myself somehow?
>
> Just get the source distribution and run "setup.py install". Or run
> ipython.py directly from the source.
>
> --
> Ville M. Vainio
> http://tinyurl.com/vainio
>
> --
> No version for 64 bit Windows
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/382214
> You received this bug notification because you are a member of IPython
> Developers, which is subscribed to IPython.
>
> Status in IPython - Enhanced Interactive Python: New
> Status in pyreadline - a python replacement of readline: New
>
> Bug description:
> When trying to install IPython on Windows Vista 64 bit, the installer errors out because it can't find a Python installation in the registry. I have Python 2.6.2 64 bit installed on my computer.  According to this[1] it's because IPython is 32 bit and so it can't work with the 64 bit Python installation. Is there an easy way to fix this, eg. can I just recompile it myself somehow?
>
> [1] http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/529c0023fb22922a
>

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Assistant Professor of Physics
Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo
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[Ibrahim Awwal (ibrahim-awwal)]

Right, but unfortunately setuptools doesn't install for the exact same reason. I did figure out how to build my own installer by issuing the command setup.py bdist_wininst, and at the least I now have IPython working with shortcuts and everything, although I did the same for setuptools and it did not work.

If it's that easy to generate the installer, it would be nice to at least put up a note for users of 64 bit Windows so they don't waste time trying to figure this out. Since the website is a wiki, this shouldn't be hard to do, but I'm not sure what the phrasing should be or where the notice should go.

Anyway, thanks for the help; something else should probably be done to help other people who run into the same situation, which will increase as more people move to 64 bit Windows.

[Brian Granger (ellisonbg)]

I don't know if any of the IPython devs have access to Windows 64 bit.
 Minimally though, we can add a note to the installation docs about
this.

Brian

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Ibrahim Awwal <email address hidden> wrote:
> Right, but unfortunately setuptools doesn't install for the exact same
> reason. I did figure out how to build my own installer by issuing the
> command setup.py bdist_wininst, and at the least I now  have IPython
> working with shortcuts and everything, although I did the same for
> setuptools and it did not work.
>
> If it's that easy to generate the installer, it would be nice to at
> least put up a note for users of 64 bit Windows so they don't waste time
> trying to figure this out. Since the website is a wiki, this shouldn't
> be hard to do, but I'm not sure what the phrasing should be or where the
> notice should go.
>
> Anyway, thanks for the help; something else should probably be done to
> help other people who run into the same situation, which will increase
> as more people move to 64 bit Windows.
>
> --
> No version for 64 bit Windows
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/382214
> You received this bug notification because you are a member of IPython
> Developers, which is subscribed to IPython.
>
> Status in IPython - Enhanced Interactive Python: New
> Status in pyreadline - a python replacement of readline: New
>
> Bug description:
> When trying to install IPython on Windows Vista 64 bit, the installer errors out because it can't find a Python installation in the registry. I have Python 2.6.2 64 bit installed on my computer.  According to this[1] it's because IPython is 32 bit and so it can't work with the 64 bit Python installation. Is there an easy way to fix this, eg. can I just recompile it myself somehow?
>
> [1] http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/529c0023fb22922a
>

--
Brian E. Granger, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Physics
Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo
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<email address hidden>

[Ibrahim Awwal (ibrahim-awwal)]

Hi guys, it's me again. I installed Windows 7 recently and was installing all my old software again, and when I got to ipython it complained about pyreadline as usual, so I went to install it. It seems like there isn't a tarball of the source provided anymore, which kind of makes it hard to use the workaround we found earlier. I don't want to install bzr just to get the source for pyreadline, although I probably will, but is there a reason why there is no tarball for pyreadline available anywhere obvious? If you guys want I can generate a 64 bit installer that you can put up on the website.

[Jörgen Stenarson (jorgen-stenarson)]

Ibrahim Awwal skrev:
> Hi guys, it's me again. I installed Windows 7 recently and was
> installing all my old software again, and when I got to ipython it
> complained about pyreadline as usual, so I went to install it. It seems
> like there isn't a tarball of the source provided anymore, which kind of
> makes it hard to use the workaround we found earlier. I don't want to
> install bzr just to get the source for pyreadline, although I probably
> will, but is there a reason why there is no tarball for pyreadline
> available anywhere obvious? If you guys want I can generate a 64 bit
> installer that you can put up on the website.
>

zip-file of source has been added to 1.5 milestone. Please let me know
if this fixes your issue

/Jörgen

[Sridhar Ratnakumar (srid)]

PyPI entry needs to be updated though: https://bugs.launchpad.net/pyreadline/+bug/505006

[Fernando Perez (fdo.perez)]

Closing the IPython bug since I just added a doc note about this in trunk, r1243.