I am not sure what you mean. (elpy-enable) in an init file does it for me.
It is only active in the special edit mode, e.g. C-c ' in the code block.

John

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On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 9:10 AM, Doyley, Marvin M. <m.doyley@rochester.edu>
wrote:

> Doesn't anybody know how to enable elpy mode when writing python or
> ipython code blocks.
>
> Thanks,
> M
>
> Sent from my iPad
>