ipython 5.0.0b2

IPython: Productive Interactive Computing

IPython provides a rich toolkit to help you make the most out of using Python interactively. Its main components are:

• A powerful interactive Python shell

• A Jupyter kernel to work with Python code in Jupyter notebooks and other interactive frontends.

The enhanced interactive Python shells have the following main features:

• Comprehensive object introspection.

• Input history, persistent across sessions.

• Caching of output results during a session with automatically generated references.

• Extensible tab completion, with support by default for completion of python variables and keywords, filenames and function keywords.

• Extensible system of ‘magic’ commands for controlling the environment and performing many tasks related either to IPython or the operating system.

• A rich configuration system with easy switching between different setups (simpler than changing $PYTHONSTARTUP environment variables every time).

• Session logging and reloading.

• Extensible syntax processing for special purpose situations.

• Access to the system shell with user-extensible alias system.

• Easily embeddable in other Python programs and GUIs.

• Integrated access to the pdb debugger and the Python profiler.

The latest development version is always available from IPython’s GitHub site.