IPython provides a rich architecture for interactive computing with a powerful shell, Jupyter kernel support, and flexible tools for parallel and distributed computing.

Installing IPython ¶ There are multiple ways of installing IPython. This page contains simplified installation instructions that should work for most users. Our official documentation contains more …

Provide an interactive shell superior to Python’s default. IPython has many features for tab-completion, object introspection, system shell access, command history retrieval across sessions, and its own …

IPython stores both the commands you enter, and the results it produces. You can easily go through previous commands with the up- and down-arrow keys, or access your history in more sophisticated …

This will download and install IPython and its main optional dependencies for the notebook, qtconsole, tests, and other functionality. Some dependencies (Qt, PyQt for the QtConsole, pandoc for …

To see the options IPython accepts, use ipython --help (and you probably should run the output through a pager such as ipython --help | less for more convenient reading).

Documentation ¶ IPython documentation is now hosted on the Read the Docs service. Other pieces ¶ Many pieces which were previously part of IPython were split out in version 4, and now have their …

You can also view IPython on PyPI to see version history, download statistics, and more. After installation, start IPython by running:

The IPython Notebook is now known as the Jupyter Notebook. It is an interactive computational environment, in which you can combine code execution, rich text, mathematics, plots and rich media.

The landing page of the IPython notebook web application, the dashboard, shows the notebooks currently available in the notebook directory (by default, the directory from which the notebook server …