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IPython
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IPython

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What is IPython?

It provides a rich architecture for interactive computing with a powerful interactive shell, a kernel for Jupyter. It has a support for interactive data visualization and use of GUI toolkits. Flexible, embeddable interpreters to load into your own projects. Easy to use, high performance tools for parallel computing.

IPython is a tool in the Languages category of a tech stack.

Key Features

InteractiveMagicembeddable interpretersparallel computing

IPython Pros & Cons

Pros of IPython

  • ✓Help in a keystroke
  • ✓Interactive exploration then save to a script
  • ✓It's magical are just that
  • ✓Persistent history between sessions

Cons of IPython

No cons listed yet.

IPython Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to IPython?

Shell

Shell

A shell is a text-based terminal, used for manipulating programs and files. Shell scripts typically manage program execution.

PowerShell

PowerShell

A command-line shell and scripting language built on .NET. Helps system administrators and power-users rapidly automate tasks that manage operating systems (Linux, macOS, and Windows) and processes.

GNU Bash

GNU Bash

The Bourne Again SHell is an sh-compatible shell that incorporates useful features from the Korn shell (ksh) and C shell (csh). It is intended to conform to the IEEE POSIX P1003.2/ISO 9945.2 Shell and Tools standard.

Zsh (Z shell)

Zsh (Z shell)

An interactive login shell, command interpreter and scripting language.

Fish Shell

Fish Shell

It is a useful utility filled shell which makes command line operations quicker with customized functions, easy to append path variable command, command history and more right out of the box.

Tabby

Tabby

It is an infinitely customizable cross-platform terminal app for local shells, serial, SSH and Telnet connections.

IPython Integrations

Python, PyCharm, Apache Spark, PyPy, PRQL and 1 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with IPython. Here's a list of all 6 tools that integrate with IPython.

Python
Python
PyCharm
PyCharm
Apache Spark
Apache Spark
PyPy
PyPy
PRQL
PRQL
IPython-GPT
IPython-GPT

IPython Discussions

Discover why developers choose IPython. Read real-world technical decisions and stack choices from the StackShare community.Showing 1 of 5 discussions.

Guillaume Simler
Guillaume Simler

Sep 9, 2019

Needs adviceonJupyterJupyterAnacondaAnacondaPandasPandas

Jupyter Anaconda Pandas IPython

A great way to prototype your data analytic modules. The use of the package is simple and user-friendly and the migration from ipython to python is fairly simple: a lot of cleaning, but no more.

The negative aspect comes when you want to streamline your productive system or does CI with your anaconda environment:

  • most tools don't accept conda environments (as smoothly as pip requirements)
  • the conda environments (even with miniconda) have quite an overhead
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