| PackageDescription | IPython provides a rich toolkit to help you make the
most out of using Python interactively. Its main
components are:
* A powerful interactive Python shell
* A Jupyter kernel to work with Python code in
Jupyter notebooks and other interactive frontends.
The enhanced interactive Python shells have the
following main features:
* Comprehensive object introspection.
* Input history, persistent across sessions.
* Caching of output results during a session with automatically
generated references.
* Extensible tab completion, with support by default for completion
of python variables and keywords, filenames and function keywords.
* Extensible system of ‘magic’ commands for controlling the
environment and performing many tasks related either to IPython or
the operating system.
* A rich configuration system with easy switching between different
setups (simpler than changing $PYTHONSTARTUP environment variables
every time).
* Session logging and reloading.
* Extensible syntax processing for special purpose situations.
* Access to the system shell with user-extensible alias system.
* Easily embeddable in other Python programs and GUIs.
* Integrated access to the pdb debugger and the Python profiler.
IMPORTANT: The Python 2 version of IPython is in long-term support
mode. It will not be receiving major new features. Starting with
IPython 6, only Python 3.3 and later is supported. |