IPython not launching on scrapy shell session

[Łukasz Kulbacki]

Hi everyone!

I've just installed IPython and Scrapy - but whenever I fire up '$ scrapy shell' it uses standard python shell. Is there any option I should override to use IPython instead? The documentation says only that scrapy will choose IPython over standard python shell automatically, which it doesn't.

I've installed Scrapy and dependencies in separate virtualenv, while IPython as global library (recommended Anaconda installer) - nevertheless, I can fire up IPython manually from within virualenvironment with '$ ipython' command.

My configuration (both commands fired from within virtualenv):

'$ pip freeze' output:

SQLAlchemy==0.9.1

Scrapy==0.20.2

Twisted==13.2.0

cssselect==0.9.1

lxml==3.2.5

psycopg2==2.5.2

pyOpenSSL==0.13.1

queuelib==1.1.1

six==1.5.2

w3lib==1.5

wsgiref==0.1.2

zope.interface==4.0.5

'$ ipython --version' output:

1.1.0

I'd appriciate any help!

Łukasz

[Rolando Espinoza La Fuente]

What's the output of "which scrapy"?

It should be a path within your virtualenv root directory.

Did you enabled the global site packages in your virtualenv?

If you are using virtualenvwrapper, you can execute: toggleglobalsitepackages

Otherwise see here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3371136/revert-the-no-site-packages-option-with-virtualenv?rq=1 

You should be able to execute without errors (no output): python -c "import IPython"

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