ipython error using matlab.engine

Hi, I've just installed Matlab R2014b, and am trying to use matlab.engine in ipython. I'm running Mac OS X 10.9.5 The code and error message are

In [1]: import matlab.engine /Users/pmzrdw/anaconda/bin/python.app: line 3: 6203 Segmentation fault: 11 /Users/pmzrdw/anaconda/python.app/Contents/MacOS/python "$@"

It seems to work okay in python, but not in ipython. Any ideas?

Many thanks,

Richard

Answer 1

[Bo Li]

The document says that the engine supports the reference implementation (CPython) for Python versions 2.7 and 3.3:

http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab-engine-for-python.html

Answer 2

[Trevor]

I'm also suffering from this same problem but it seems to also plague Anaconda's regular python terminal...

[Richard Wilkinson]

I fixed the problem in the end by deleting the anaconda installation of ipython and python and reinstalling everything from other sources.