From: Julian Taylor Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 18:19:04 +0200 Subject: debianize error messages --- IPython/scripts/ipython | 6 +++++- IPython/zmq/__init__.py | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/IPython/scripts/ipython +++ b/IPython/scripts/ipython @@ -4,4 +4,13 @@ from IPython.frontend.terminal.ipapp import launch_new_instance -launch_new_instance() +try: + launch_new_instance() +except ImportError as e: + if "qt.console.qtconsoleapp" in e.message: + print "Could not start qtconsole. Please install ipython-qtconsole" + elif "html.notebook.notebookapp" in e.message: + print "Could not start notebook. Please install ipython-notebook" + else: + # if there is no clue on the cause -- just re-raise + raise --- a/IPython/zmq/__init__.py +++ b/IPython/zmq/__init__.py @@ -50,12 +50,12 @@ try: import zmq except ImportError: - raise ImportError("%s requires pyzmq >= %s"%(module, minimum_version)) + raise ImportError("%s requires python-zmq >= %s"%(module, minimum_version)) pyzmq_version = zmq.__version__ if 'dev' not in pyzmq_version and V(pyzmq_version) < V(minimum_version): - raise ImportError("%s requires pyzmq >= %s, but you have %s"%( + raise ImportError("%s requires python-zmq >= %s, but you have %s"%( module, minimum_version, pyzmq_version)) if V(zmq.zmq_version()) >= V('4.0.0'):