[IPython-user] Toward a seemless install for reluctant converts

[Fernando Perez]

On 5/16/07, Ville M. Vainio <vivainio@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Changing the default ipythonrc-scipy.ini file might mean sort of
> > removing Numeric support from IPython, which might be premature.  The
> > offending lines are:
> > import_all scipy #IPython.numutils
> > and the last one
> > #execfile Extensions/numeric_formats.py
> > (the #'s are my "fixes").
>
> What you need is a new profile, let's say "sci" (kinda like "sh" is
> the modern version of "pysh"). I'll add a new module "sci"
> (ipy_profile_sci), put it on svn and you take a look at it. I have no
> scipy stuff installed myself.

Just call it 'scipy' profile, *don't* add another one.  Numeric is
fully deprecated at this point, so it's OK to update the scipy profile
to not use Numeric at all.

I have very limited net access right now so I can't do this cleanup
myself, but please don't create unnecessarily a profile with another
name.  Scipy is the name of the package and the website, so it should
be the name of the profile.

Cheers,

f