[FIXED] 500 server error using IPython notebook on Windows

Issue

I've just done a fresh install of IPython notebook on Windows 7 Professional 64 bit.

The steps I took were:

1. Install Python 3.4.1 from http://python.org
2. > pip install ipython[notebook]
3. > pip install pywin numpy pygments nodeenv

I can open a notebook fine.

However, when I select File > Print Preview or File > Download as HTML I get a 500 server error.

The stack trace is:

2014-08-07 09:44:25.431 [NotebookApp] Loaded template full.tpl
C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\IPython\nbconvert\filters\markdown.py:78: UserWarning: Node.js 0.9.12 or later wasn't found.
Nbconvert will try to use Pandoc instead.
  "Nbconvert will try to use Pandoc instead.")
WARNING:tornado.general:500 GET /nbconvert/html/Users/Tom%20Oakley/Documents/IPython%20test.ipynb?download=false (::1): nbconvert failed: you need to have pywin32 installed for this to work
ERROR:tornado.access:{
  "Dnt": "1",
  "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.125 Safari/537.36",
  "Referer": "http://localhost:8888/notebooks/Users/Tom%20Oakley/Documents/IPython%20test.ipynb",
  "Host": "localhost:8888",
  "Connection": "keep-alive",
  "Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.8,en-GB;q=0.6",
  "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8",
  "Accept-Encoding": "gzip,deflate,sdch"
}
ERROR:tornado.access:500 GET /nbconvert/html/Users/Tom%20Oakley/Documents/IPython%20test.ipynb?download=false (::1) 156.01ms referer=http://localhost:8888/notebooks/Users/Tom%20Oakley/Documents/IPython%20test.ipynb
WARNING:tornado.access:404 GET /favicon.ico (::1) 1.00ms referer=None

Installing node.js and Pandocs did not help.

Any thoughts on how to fix this error?

I've raised it as an issue with the IPython team.

Solution

I ended up installing Anaconda in the end and that worked.

Answered By - blokeley