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I have installed the newest iPython in Mac. However, it uses the Python verion 2.5.1.

I installed the Python 2.6.1 by MacPython package at here.

How can I make my iPython to use Python 2.6.1?

I am not sure where the MacPython package exactly installed the newest Python. The newest Python should somehow put the PATH so that iPyhon can use it.

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I run the following command

$ln -s python python2.6

I cannot open python2.6 by 

python
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A good way to get it to work is here. I needed to restart my terminal before ipython pointed to python2.6. Note the latest ipython distribution is 0.10, not 0.9.

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This answer is correct. The accepted answer is just a hack that doesn't address the problem.
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you should have a python, python2.5 and python2.6, is that correct? If you wan't to use python2.6 system wide the symple solution would be to sym link (ln -s ..) python to python2.6 instead of python2.5

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I run the following $ln -s python python2.6, but $ python does not open Python2.6.
you got it the the wrong way around you need to do $ln -s /full/path/to/python2.6 /full/path/to/python /full/path/to needs to be replaced with the real path name for where the python2.6 is installed (by default /opt/local/bin/ if you installed it with macports)

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