How to run ipton qtconsole on Win7
I have python 3.4 and ipython 2.3.1 installed on Windows 7. I installed ipython using a pip from the wheel from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ (Thanks Chris!). This installation procedure does not create any start menu shortcuts, even when run as administrator. I can successfully launch "ipython qtconsole" from a CMD window, but then I have to open that command window and the process is not fork - it is just an extra window that the child process is in. If I create a shortcut to do the same, it opens a cmd window, which then opens qtconsole.
So how do I start qtconsole without an additional cmd window? In previous versions, you could call python to run the ipython console script, but it seems to be done now, in favor of a dedicated exe that seems to do the same ... but waits for it to complete. Is there a way to start qtconsole without waiting?
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I found something here and then tried a few things and hence found that it does it if I typed in the windowrun
c:\python27\pythonw -c "import IPython; IPython.start_ipython(['qtconsole'])"
I think it should work for shortcuts as well.
PS: I am using python 2.7.9 with IPython 3.0.0 on Windows 7
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