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My problem is Emacs with elpy, specifically with (elpy-use-ipython) in my init file. When I try to open a python file, emacs freezes.

I desactivate ipython and emacs runs well. But I wanna use ipython because it is a great tool.

My OS is Arch Linux, recently (21/07/2016), ipython upgrades from version 4.2.0 to 5.0.0. The emacs version is 24.5.1.

Now, how I can fix this issue? How I can use ipython again?

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  • Can you please provide some more detail? Can you give a recipe that shows what you mean, starting with emacs -Q?
    – Drew
    Commented Jul 22, 2016 at 1:30

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ipython 5.0.0 by defautl uses prompt_toolkit which is really nice in a terminal but uses special characters for colors and completion that screws emacs display. Eventually it should be fixed but for now I have this in my .emacs:

  (setq python-shell-interpreter "ipython3"
    python-shell-interpreter-args "--simple-prompt --pprint")

and run M-x run-python to lauch the ipython interpreter wihtout prompt_toolkit.

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An alternative solution to Lompik's is to simply downgrade to ipython4. This might be better anyway, because --simple-prompt argument that lompik suggests removes many of the great features of ipython. For example, now you rely on elpy to do completions, and you can't have multi-line input

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  • That's right. By the way, is this problem not fixed yet?
    – cactus
    Commented Dec 18, 2016 at 2:48
  • @cactus I can't seem to find one. If you do, let me know. Right now i'm struggling to stop elpy from spawning an unnecessary python process at startup. Save me.
    – Dodgie
    Commented Dec 18, 2016 at 4:35

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