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IPython Kernel

IPython provides extensions to the Python programming language that make working interactively convenient and efficient. These extensions are implemented in the IPython Kernel and are available in all of the IPython Frontends (Notebook, Terminal, Console and Qt Console) when running this kernel.

Tutorials

• Cell Magics
• Script Magics
• Rich Output
• Custom Display Logic
• Plotting in the Notebook
• Capturing Output

Examples

• Background Jobs
• Trapezoid Rule
• SymPy
• Raw Input in the Notebook
• Importing Notebooks

Non-notebook examples

This directory also contains examples that are regular Python (.py) files.

%run ../utils/list_pyfiles.ipy

example-demo.py

ipython-get-history.py

There are also a set of examples that show how to integrate IPython with different GUI event loops:

%run ../utils/list_subdirs.ipy

data/
  flare.json

gui/
  gui-glut.py
  gui-gtk.py
  gui-gtk3.py
  gui-pyglet.py
  gui-qt.py
  gui-tk.py
  gui-wx.py