On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 12:55 AM, Jeroen Demeyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Do we really need this line in src/sage/__init__.py
>
> from sage.repl.ipython_extension import load_ipython_extension
>
>
> This line forces *every use of Sage* to import IPython. In particular, it
> makes sage-download-file depend on IPython which is annoying since a broken
> IPython means no more downloads...

Also IPython is large and takes a long time to load.  In the past I've
often tried to keep IPython from loading by default if it isn't
needed, to reduce the startup time (similar to not importing numpy by
default).

William

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