Python/Django shell won't start

Question

One of the great features of Django is that you can open a python interpreter set-up for use with your project. This can be used to analyse objects in a database and allows

Answer 1

It seems like IPython is installed wrongly somehow. Try starting the shell with:

./manage.py shell --plain

to start the standard Python shell, rather than IPython. If that works, then trying removing IPython completely and reinstalling it.

Answer 2

IPython 0.11 has a different API, for which a fix exists in the last Django versions.

For older Django versions, you can use IPython 0.10, which does work:

pip install ipython==0.10