I was recently introduced to IPython, and got a bit frustrated trying to get notebook running on OSX. The first time I tried with pip, I learned a lot about conflicting dependencies. I kind of managed to get it rolling, but I wasn’t totally confident about how I got there. When I decided to rebuild my laptop with GA Yosemite I thought it’d be a good opportunity to start from scratch and document the path to a functional IPython Notebook environment!
IPython is a very interesting open source project for “interactive computing”. I’m not sure how best to describe what it does. It’s a browser based notebook that supports text, code, mathematical expresssions and more! Read more about IPython here: http://ipython.org/
From stock Yosemite:
- install Python 3.4 from python.org
- download get-pip.py from pypi.python.org
from terminal:
python3 get-pip.py
sudo pip3 install ipython
sudo pip3 install "ipython[notebook]"
sudo pip3 install pyzmq
sudo pip3 install jinja2
sudo pip3 install tornado
ipython notebook
This should start the server process and open a new browser. Enjoy!
Categories: Development
Chris Saunders
Infrastructure nerd learning to code and be a better human
Capacitive Flux 
Thanks bradda. Works on my box.