<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi Foad,<div><br></div><div>Are you trying to run ipython from *within* python or from the windows command prompt? ipython is a command that must be run from the windows command line, which starts up the ipython interactive python environment. </div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>John</div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 9, 2013, at 3:52 PM, foad hanassi-savari <<a href="mailto:foadhanassi-savari@hotmail.co.uk">foadhanassi-savari@hotmail.co.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,<div>I have a trivial question. I am trying to open ipython in the anaconda command prompt (in windows 7 64-bits).</div><div>I am currently doing the python for astronomers introductory course on<a href="http://astropython.org/">astropython.org</a>. I have already upgraded ipython and the packages like astropy, aplpy etc and they work fine. At the moment I'm on the 'take your python for a spin!' section but cannot start up ipython in the command prompt. I have installed 7-zip and have untar-ed the file.</div><div>Simply running %pylab doesn't work, I have tried so many different commands and non works for me. Can anyone help me please?</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you,</div><div>Foad</div></div>_______________________________________________<br>AstroPy mailing list<br><a href="mailto:AstroPy@scipy.org">AstroPy@scipy.org</a><br><a href="http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/astropy">http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/astropy</a></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>