My Python Developer Environment Guide

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iPython

Install iPython

sudo pip install ipython

Using iPython within virtualenv

Add the following code to ~/.ipython/ipython_config.py

import site
from os import environ
from os.path import join
from sys import version_info

if 'VIRTUAL_ENV' in environ:
    virtual_env = join(environ.get('VIRTUAL_ENV'),
                       'lib',
                       'python%d.%d' % version_info[:2],
                       'site-packages')
    site.addsitedir(virtual_env)
    print 'Using Virtualenv =>', virtual_env
    del virtual_env
del site, environ, join, version_info

However, Django shell cannot detect iPython while using virtual environment.

lxml on Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt-dev
pip install lxml