ipython/ipython — Issue #1018: Local mathjax breaks install
Author: stefanv
Created: 2011-11-20 09:11:55+00:00
State: open

I sometimes run IPython in-place, other times I do a full install.

Once Mathjax has been installed locally in the in-place version, doing "python setup.py install" no longer works:

```

Extracting ipython-0.12.dev-py3.2.egg to /home/stefan/lib/python3.2/site-packages
File "/home/stefan/lib/python3.2/site-packages/ipython-0.12.dev-py3.2.egg/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/static/mathjax/docs/source/conf.py", line 40
project = u'MathJax'
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
```

The solution may be to explicitly tell setup.py to ignore the local Mathjax cache.