Ipython

TODO:

These docs are a mess, and highlight the wrong info. To be reorganized. 

An alternative/featureful python interpreter.

• colours
• tab autocomplete
• auto-reload all before each run
• all of these features within a debugger
• readline support

You can also install kernels for other languages, allowing you to run them within it (ex: java).

Documentation

As of the move to IPython 5.0, the documentation is in the progress of being hosted on Read The Docs. IPython also incorporated some other projects, and their configuration is also independent of ipython's own.

http://python-prompt-toolkit.readthedocs.io/en/stable/		IPython5.0 readline replacement (see here for vi-style keys)
http://ipython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/		IPython5.0 documentation
https://ipython.org/ipython-doc/3/		Legacy IPython documentation
https://github.com/ipython/ipython/wiki/IPython-kernels-for-other-languages		Other Lang Kernels (C#, Haskell, Julia,...)

Locations

~/.ipython/profile_default/ipython_config.py	ipython config
~/.ipython/${PROFILE}/startup/	scripts in this folder are run on startup

Notes

ipython configuration

ipython usage

CLI

I'm not sure why, but ipython does not create manpages. Nor do they host their CLI documentation on the web. (I have no idea why not...).

In order to get help from ipython:

ipython --help-all		## generic commands
ipython help kernel		## information about specific subcommands

Kernel

There are kernels for other languages available to ipython.

ruby iruby

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