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Print not showing in ipython notebook

I am using ipython notebook (http://ipython.org/notebook.html) to do a demo and it seems like the print function is not working:

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The commands in the above picture are rewritten here for clarity.

In [1]: 'hello world'
Out [1]: 'hello world'

In [2]: print 'hello world'

In short, there's no print output from the [2].

Does anyone know whether it's a known bug? And does anyone know how to fix it?

Solution

  • I had a similar printing problem when my first code cell was:

    import sys
reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding("utf-8")

    Then I've commented the second and third lines like this:

    import sys
#reload(sys)
#sys.setdefaultencoding("utf-8")

    Reset the kernel and re-ran the program and now my print statements are working properly.

    Later on, I've found that when I was first having the printing problem, all print outputs were actually being sent to the ipython console terminal (on my Linux box), instead of being embed on the notebook.