convore.json/groups/ipython/banishing-libedit-readline-on-os-x/messages.json

[{"user_id": 1822, "stars": [], "topic_id": 16535, "date_created": 1301592632.276974, "message": "so there is a well known issue with iPython on OS X >= 10.6 because python uses a different readline impl", "group_id": 8138, "id": 493986}, {"user_id": 1822, "stars": [], "topic_id": 16535, "date_created": 1301592674.202244, "message": "There are numerous pages about fixing it that simply involve installing a different version of readline, which I've done with:\nsudo pip install -f http://ipython.scipy.org/dist/ readline", "group_id": 8138, "id": 493990}, {"user_id": 1822, "stars": [], "topic_id": 16535, "date_created": 1301592799.2413909, "message": "seems like my user installed global site packages should be higher priority than the OS Python libs, but before I go and muck with my PYTHONPATH to get this to work, I wanted to see if anyone had solved this another way.  None of the pages noting the install of the standard vers of readline mention anything about this path problem.", "group_id": 8138, "id": 494013}, {"user_id": 1822, "stars": [], "topic_id": 16535, "date_created": 1301592729.6808751, "message": "but because the system's python libs are a higher priority than my global-site packages folder, it still fails", "group_id": 8138, "id": 494001}, {"user_id": 12404, "stars": [], "topic_id": 16535, "date_created": 1301606360.645891, "message": "I did virtualenv --no-site-packages and then added ~/yourenv/bin to the path in ~/.profile", "group_id": 8138, "id": 496572}, {"user_id": 1822, "stars": [], "topic_id": 16535, "date_created": 1302118101.5604019, "message": "Eureka - this is one case where you want to use easy_install over pip.  easy_install will download a special binary egg with the non-libedit version of readline statically linked, while pip will download and compile readline, which will link the problematic system libedit library.  \n\nsudo easy_install readline    worked", "group_id": 8138, "id": 563577}, {"user_id": 1822, "stars": [], "topic_id": 16535, "date_created": 1302126492.2361381, "message": "bah - but this breaks virtualenv because it expects to only find readline in the system's path, not in --site-packages - see my comment on : https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/#issue/4", "group_id": 8138, "id": 565666}]