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    copied!<p>I am trying desperately to get ipython notebook to work in a windows environment. I installed Continuum IO's Anaconda, a scientific distribution of python. I want to use ipython notebook, but get the following error. <code>ipython</code> in the terminal works fine. Any thoughts?</p> <p>UPDATE: As asked for below, here is the output from sys.path on my system.</p> <pre><code>['', 'C:\\Anaconda\\scripts', 'C:\\Anaconda\\lib\\site-packages\\distribute-0.6.45-py2.7.egg', 'C:\\Anaconda', 'C:\\Users\\btibert\\ C:\\Anaconda\\Scripts', 'C:\\Anaconda\\python27.zip', 'C:\\Anaconda\\DLLs', 'C:\\Anaconda\\lib', 'C:\\Anaconda\\lib\\plat-win', 'C:\\Anaconda\\lib\\lib-tk', 'C:\\Users\\btibert\\AppData\\Roaming\\Python\\Python27\\site-packages', 'C:\\Users\\btibert\\AppData\\Roaming\\Python\\Python27\\site-packages\\Orange\\orng', 'C:\\Users\\btibert\\AppData\\Roaming\\Python\\Python27\\site-packages\\setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg-info', 'C:\\Anaconda\\lib\\site-packages', 'C:\\Anaconda\\lib\\site-packages\\PIL', 'C:\\Anaconda\\lib\\site-packages\\win32', 'C:\\Anaconda\\lib\\site-packages\\win32\\lib', 'C:\\Anaconda\\lib\\site-packages\\Pythonwin', 'C:\\Users\\btibert\\AppData\\Roaming\\Python\\Python27\\site-packages\\IPython\\extensions'] </code></pre> <p>And here is the error:</p> <pre><code>C:\Users\btibert&gt;ipython notebook Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Anaconda\Scripts\ipython-script.py", line 5, in &lt;module&gt; sys.exit(launch_new_instance()) File "C:\Users\btibert\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python27\site-packages\IPython\frontend\terminal\ipapp.py", line 402, in launch_new_instance app.initialize() File "&lt;string&gt;", line 2, in initialize File "C:\Users\btibert\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python27\site-packages\IPython\config\application.py", line 84, in catch _config_error return method(app, *args, **kwargs) File "C:\Users\btibert\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python27\site-packages\IPython\frontend\terminal\ipapp.py", line 302, in initialize super(TerminalIPythonApp, self).initialize(argv) File "&lt;string&gt;", line 2, in initialize File "C:\Users\btibert\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python27\site-packages\IPython\config\application.py", line 84, in catch _config_error return method(app, *args, **kwargs) File "C:\Users\btibert\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python27\site-packages\IPython\core\application.py", line 325, in initia lize self.parse_command_line(argv) File "C:\Users\btibert\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python27\site-packages\IPython\frontend\terminal\ipapp.py", line 297, in parse_command_line return super(TerminalIPythonApp, self).parse_command_line(argv) File "&lt;string&gt;", line 2, in parse_command_line File "C:\Users\btibert\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python27\site-packages\IPython\config\application.py", line 84, in catch _config_error return method(app, *args, **kwargs) File "C:\Users\btibert\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python27\site-packages\IPython\config\application.py", line 413, in pars e_command_line return self.initialize_subcommand(subc, subargv) File "&lt;string&gt;", line 2, in initialize_subcommand File "C:\Users\btibert\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python27\site-packages\IPython\config\application.py", line 84, in catch _config_error return method(app, *args, **kwargs) File "C:\Users\btibert\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python27\site-packages\IPython\config\application.py", line 349, in init ialize_subcommand subapp = import_item(subapp) File "C:\Users\btibert\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python27\site-packages\IPython\utils\importstring.py", line 40, in impor t_item module = __import__(package,fromlist=[obj]) File "C:\Users\btibert\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python27\site-packages\IPython\frontend\html\notebook\notebookapp.py", l ine 34, in &lt;module&gt; from zmq.eventloop import ioloop File "C:\Users\btibert\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python27\site-packages\zmq\eventloop\__init__.py", line 3, in &lt;module&gt; from zmq.eventloop.ioloop import IOLoop File "C:\Users\btibert\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python27\site-packages\zmq\eventloop\ioloop.py", line 56, in &lt;module&gt; from zmq.eventloop.platform.auto import set_close_exec, Waker ImportError: No module named platform.auto </code></pre>
 

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