> I think in jupyter this is meant to be handled by the --kernel option - ie
> jupyter qtconsole --kernel python2 ok it works > jupyter qtconsole --kernel python3 $ jupyter qtconsole --kernel python3 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/jupyter-qtconsole", line 9, in <module> load_entry_point('qtconsole==4.2.1', 'gui_scripts', 'jupyter-qtconsole')() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/qtconsole/qtconsoleapp.py", line 396, in main JupyterQtConsoleApp.launch_instance() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jupyter_core/application.py", line 267, in launch_instance return super(JupyterApp, cls).launch_instance(argv=argv, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/traitlets/config/application.py", line 595, in launch_instance app.initialize(argv) File "<decorator-gen-115>", line 2, in initialize File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/traitlets/config/application.py", line 74, in catch_config_error return method(app, *args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/qtconsole/qtconsoleapp.py", line 367, in initialize JupyterConsoleApp.initialize(self,argv) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jupyter_client/consoleapp.py", line 334, in initialize self.init_kernel_manager() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jupyter_client/consoleapp.py", line 288, in init_kernel_manager self.kernel_manager.start_kernel(**kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jupyter_client/manager.py", line 230, in start_kernel kernel_cmd = self.format_kernel_cmd(extra_arguments=extra_arguments) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jupyter_client/manager.py", line 170, in format_kernel_cmd cmd = self.kernel_spec.argv + extra_arguments File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jupyter_client/manager.py", line 82, in kernel_spec self._kernel_spec = self.kernel_spec_manager.get_kernel_spec(self.kernel_name) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jupyter_client/kernelspec.py", line 175, in get_kernel_spec raise NoSuchKernel(kernel_name) jupyter_client.kernelspec.NoSuchKernel: No such kernel named python3 given the existence of non-python kernels (irkernel, ihaskell, iruby, ijavascript, etc...) But if I list the kernel available I have just ~$ jupyter-kernelspec list Available kernels: python3 /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ipykernel/resources so it is really strange... Cheers Fred