IPython Python Interactive Shell

A IPython Python Interactive Shell is a Python REPL developed by ipython.org.

• Context:
  • It can support IPython Notebooks.
  • It can be embedded in code via a IPython Library import IPython
  • It can (typically) communicate with an IPython Kernel.
  • It can (typically) be accessed through a Jupyter Notebook System.
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• Example(s):
  • IPython 5.4 (2017-02-24).
  • IPython 5.0 (2016-07-08)[1].
  • IPython 4.0.
  • IPython 3.0.
  • IPython 2.7.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Zeppelin Python Interpreter[2].
  • IRuby Shell.
  • IJulia Shell.
• See: Python Interpreter, REPL.

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References

2017

• (Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPython Retrieved:2017-4-27.
  • IPython is a command shell for interactive computing in multiple programming languages, originally developed for the Python programming language, that offers introspection, rich media, shell syntax, tab completion, and history. IPython provides the following features:
    • Interactive shells (terminal and Qt-based).
    • A browser-based notebook with support for code, text, mathematical expressions, inline plots and other media.
    • Support for interactive data visualization and use of GUI toolkits.
    • Flexible, embeddable interpreters to load into one's own projects.
    • Tools for parallel computing.

2016

• http://ipython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
  • QUOTE: 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 and kernel 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.
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