I'm on ubuntu with python 2.7
according to the documentation I should be able to get octave running from ipython:
%install_ext octavemagic
%load_ext octavemagic
('The file must have a .py or .zip extension', u'octavemagic')
If I try:
%install_ext bash.py
IOError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-5-36b60e02c7c6> in <module>()
----> 1 get_ipython().magic(u'install_ext bash.py')
Complete trace here
%lsmagic gives a lot of magics and i tried %%timeit arange(1000) and it worked fine.
Finally, I tested the magic at the ipython commandline, as opposed to notebook; %octave x = [1,2;3,4] worked just fine.
I'd really like to get octave running from ipython notebook. Any ideas of where to investigate?
octavemagic.py is in <myinstall_directory>/IPython/extensions/octavemagic.py as are the others i tried that failed.
My steps: according to http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/stable/config/extensions/octavemagic.html
- $ easy_install oct2py (no problem)
$ easy_install h5py
h5py/api_compat.h:21:18: fatal error: hdf5.h: No such file or directory(I do have it in a couple of places (octave and another 3rd party lib. Found others who said that h5py is broken wrt hdf5.h, so I tried a full lib-dev install)$sudo apt-get libhdf5-serial-dev $sudo easy_install h5py Installed /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/h5py-2.0.1-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg Processing dependencies for h5py Finished processing dependencies for h5py
Discovered I had a thin (notebook only?) version of ipython, so I installed the source from git and build it. Yes. I built it. 8)
sudo easy_install nose pexpect irunner and ipython-dev- launch notebook with
ipython notebook -pylab inlineNotebook starts and things work, except for the %magic octavemagic. Also doesn't work for %magic bash or several others in