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Tools for interactive development in Python.

Project description

IPython provides a replacement for the interactive Python interpreter with extra functionality.

Main features:

  • Comprehensive object introspection.

  • Input history, persistent across sessions.

  • Caching of output results during a session with automatically generated references.

  • Readline based name completion.

  • Extensible system of ‘magic’ commands for controlling the environment and performing many tasks related either to IPython or the operating system.

  • 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.

  • Integrated access to the pdb debugger and the Python profiler.

The latest development version is always available at the IPython subversion repository.

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