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Anaconda vs IPython: What are the differences?
Developers describe Anaconda as "The Enterprise Data Science Platform for Data Scientists, IT Professionals and Business Leaders". A free and open-source distribution of the Python and R programming languages for scientific computing, that aims to simplify package management and deployment. Package versions are managed by the package management system conda. On the other hand, IPython is detailed as "A command shell for interactive computing in multiple programming languages". 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. .
Anaconda can be classified as a tool in the "Data Science Tools" category, while IPython is grouped under "Shells".
Pros of Anaconda
Pros of IPython
- Interactive exploration then save to a script1
- Persistent history between sessions1
- It's magical are just that1
- Help in a keystroke1