That's true, I changed string handling from pyparted 3.9 to 3.10 though I was under the impression this would be fine in the latest anaconda. Dropping that function in to 3.9.5 is fine, but I'm not going to do another 3.9.x release with that change. 3.10.x should stay on master though. There is no reason that pyparted needs to continue using ascii strings.

I did a new release of pyparted containing the partition number resetting function vpodzime needed to fix 1166598. That's a new function, but it doesn't break the API. It just adds a new function. You can't patch the old release and do a new build without doing the exact same thing to the code.

Since you were able to successfully install the updated ipython, that resolves the original bug report (874133). Please post a comment confirming that and check "Works for me". As for the problem you are seeing now, that's unrelated to the ipython update. If you want to take it to email, I'd be happy to help you out.

Don't install the source RPM. The update is in a new build of the package, which you can just install from the testing repo. This command: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=epel-testing ipython-0.10-3.el6' See comment 10 in bug 874133 for more details.