The shitty part is, you pretty much need anaconda to run iPython notebook
on a mac.

On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Wes Madrigal <wesley7879@gmail.com> wrote:

> I just commented out the _sys_version_parser regular expression in
> anaconda/lib/python2.7/platform.py on line 1363 and replaced it with the
> _sys_version_parser from /usr/lib/python2.7/platform.py and everything
> worked fine.
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> On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Ned Deily <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
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>> Ned Deily added the comment:
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>> The version string does not match either the Apple-supplied Python in
>> 10.8 (Mountain Lion) nor that of a python.org Python.  The "anaconda"
>> directory name suggests this is probably a Python from the Anaconda
>> Scientific distribution.  There have been other issues with _sys_version as
>> reported on their bug tracker; see
>> https://github.com/ContinuumIO/anaconda-issues/search?q=_sys_version&type=Issues
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>> nosy: +ned.deily
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