John Hunter wrote:

FYI, I'm getting an ipython warning error when I use

C:\Enthon23\python.exe C:\Enthon23\Scripts\ipython -p enthought

WARNING: Program configuration file enthought not found

Note I did use a non-standard install path. Where on win32 should the enthought config file reside?

From the manpage: -profile|p <name> Assume that your config file is ipythonrc-<name> (looks in current dir first, then in IPYTHONDIR). This is a quick way to keep and load multiple config files for different tasks, espe- cially if you use the include option of config files. You can keep a basic IPYTHONDIR/ipythonrc file and then have other 'profiles' which include this one and load extra things for particular tasks. For example: 1) $HOME/.ipython/ipythonrc : load basic things you always want. 2) $HOME/.ipython/ipythonrc-math : load (1) and basic math- related modules. 3) $HOME/.ipython/ipythonrc-numeric : load (1) and Numeric and plotting modules. Since it is possible to create an endless loop by having circular file inclusions, IPython will stop if it reaches 15 recursive inclusions. The code in ipython which tries to answer what 'home' is follows (from IPython.genutils): def get_home_dir(): """Return the closest possible equivalent to a 'home' directory. For Posix systems, this is $HOME, and on NT it's $HOMEDRIVE\$HOMEPATH. Currently only Posix and NT are implemented, a HomeDirError exception is raised for all other OSes. """ #' if os.name == 'posix': return os.environ['HOME'] elif os.name == 'nt': # For some strange reason, win9x returns 'nt' for os.name. try: return os.path.join(os.environ['HOMEDRIVE'],os.environ['HOMEPATH']) except: try: # Use the registry to get the 'My Documents' folder. import _winreg as wreg key = wreg.OpenKey(wreg.HKEY_CURRENT_USER, "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders") homedir = wreg.QueryValueEx(key,'Personal')[0] key.Close() return homedir except: return 'C:\\' elif os.name == 'dos': # Desperate, may do absurd things in classic MacOS. May work under DOS. return 'C:\\' else: raise HomeDirError,'support for your operating system not implemented.' All of this means that under win32, if $HOMEDRIVE\$HOMEPATH is not defined, then the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders\Personal is used. Whether this is a good idea or not, I don't know. I putzed around until I got somehting that returned reasonable-looking answers, and that was the end of it. I'm open to suggestions on better choices for this. Under posix, you just get $HOME, and you're done. Once this is answered, then ipython makes a .ipython/ subdir below this HOME directory, and that's where it looks for profiles (which must be named ipythonrc-FOO to be recognized by 'ipython -p FOO'). So the enthought profile should be a file called 'ipythonrc-enthought', located in HOME/.ipython/. FWIW on my friend's system, with a default install, this worked just right. I hope this helps, and please let me know if you guys need anything else on this. Cheers, f