Taming the verbosity of ipython tracebacks

[John Ladasky]

On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 11:34:12 AM UTC-8, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> 
> > From: Chris Angelico <r... at gmail.com>
> > To: 
> > Cc: "python-list at python.org" <python-list at python.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2015 8:00 PM
> > Subject: Re: Taming the verbosity of ipython tracebacks
> > 
> > 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?
> 
> 
> Huh? What's pip3? I thought pip works on Python 2 and 3?
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip/. I always install everything with the pip of my system python, e.g. for Python 3.4 I would do sudo python3.4 $(which pip) install somepackage. Are there any benefits of having multiple pips (except in virtualenvs)?
> 
> Regards,
> Albert-Jan

Albert-Jan, on my Ubuntu system, pip and pip3 are two different utilities.  Anything that I install with pip is linked to my Python 2 interpreter; likewise, pip3 links to Python 3.