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

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

Basic Python Code IPython works like standard Python, but with enhanced features:

Smart Tab Completion IPython's intelligent tab completion is powered by Jedi, providing context-aware suggestions for: Object attributes and methods Function parameters and arguments File and …

IPython (Interactive Python) was created by Fernando Pérez in 2001 as a more powerful interactive shell for Python. It evolved from Mathematica's notebook interface and was designed to improve the …

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 …

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 separately.

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).

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