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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

IPython is organized into a number of subpackages, each of which has its own dependencies. All of the subpackages come with IPython, so you don’t need to download and install them …

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

This design was intended to allow easy development of different frontends based on the same kernel, but it also made it possible to support new languages in the same frontends, by …

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).