Script used to verify that the requirements for the IPython Rich Output / Widget tutorial are met.

check_env.py

from __future__ import print_function

try:
   import IPython
   version = IPython.__version__
except:
   print("IPython was not found.  Please make sure IPython is installed into this Python distribution.  See http://ipython.org/ for installation instructions.")

try:
   from IPython.html import widgets
   if widgets is not None:
       print("Your machine has IPython %s installed on it.  This version is compatable with the SciPy widget tutorial." % version)
except:
   print("IPython version %s does not include widgets.  Please upgrade your IPython installation to 2.0 or later." % version)