Taming the verbosity of ipython tracebacks

[John Ladasky]

On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 11:00:32 AM UTC-8, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 5:53 AM, John Ladasky
> <j... at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > I'm running Python 3.4.0, and ipython3 1.2.1, on Ubuntu Linux 14.04 64-bit.
> >
> 
> That's  nice recent Python, but I just tried installing ipython using
> pip3, and got version 2.4.1, and was unable to reproduce your
> scenario. Is it possible you're having problems due to the version
> mismatch? Can you upgrade your ipython?
> 
> ChrisA

Thank you Chris, that did the trick.  I now have ipython 2.4.1 as well, and my tracebacks are behaving.  Ubuntu's repository apparently has an outdated version of ipython.  

Also, a heads-up: the pip3 utility does not recognize a package named ipython3, the name that Ubuntu expects.  The package name reverts to plain-old ipython.  This name conflict might cause problems for someone who wants to run ipython with Py2 -- while that isn't me, it may affect some of you.