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1 1 .. _introduction:
2 2
3 3 =====================
4 4 IPython Documentation
5 5 =====================
6 6
7 7 .. only:: html
8 8
9 9 :Release: |release|
10 10 :Date: |today|
11 11
12 12 Welcome to the official IPython documentation
13 13
14 14 IPython provides a rich toolkit to help you make the most of using Python
15 15 interactively. Its main components are:
16 16
17 17 * A powerful interactive Python shell
18 18
19 19 * A `Jupyter <http://jupyter.org/>`_ kernel to work with Python code in Jupyter
20 20 notebooks and other interactive frontends.
21 21
22 22 The enhanced interactive Python shells and kernel have the following main
23 23 features:
24 24
25 25 * Comprehensive object introspection.
26 26
27 27 * Input history, persistent across sessions.
28 28
29 29 * Caching of output results during a session with automatically generated
30 30 references.
31 31
32 32 * Extensible tab completion, with support by default for completion of python
33 33 variables and keywords, filenames and function keywords.
34 34
35 35 * Extensible system of 'magic' commands for controlling the environment and
36 36 performing many tasks related to IPython or the operating system.
37 37
38 38 * A rich configuration system with easy switching between different setups
39 39 (simpler than changing $PYTHONSTARTUP environment variables every time).
40 40
41 41 * Session logging and reloading.
42 42
43 43 * Extensible syntax processing for special purpose situations.
44 44
45 45 * Access to the system shell with user-extensible alias system.
46 46
47 47 * Easily embeddable in other Python programs and GUIs.
48 48
49 49 * Integrated access to the pdb debugger and the Python profiler.
50 50
51 51
52 The Command line interface inherits all of the above functionalities and possess
52 The Command line interface inherits the above functionality and adds
53 53
54 54 * real multi-line editing.
55 55
56 56 * syntax highlighting as you type
57 57
58 58 * integration with command line editor for a better workflow.
59 59
60 60 The kernel also has its share of features. When used with a compatible frontend,
61 61 it allows:
62 62
63 63 * the object to create a rich display of Html, Images, Latex, Sound and
64 64 Video.
65 65
66 66 * interactive widgets with the use of the ``ipywidgets`` package.
67 67
68 68
69 69 This documentation will walk you through most of the features of the IPython
70 70 command line and kernel, as well as describe the internal mechanisms in order
71 71 to improve your Python workflow.
72 72
73 73 You can find the table of content for this documentation in the left
74 74 sidebar, allowing you to come back to previous sections or skip ahead, if needed.
75 75
76 76
77 The latest development version is always available through IPython's `GitHub
77 The latest development version is always available from IPython's `GitHub
78 78 repository <http://github.com/ipython/ipython>`_.
79 79
80 80
81 81
82 82
83 83 .. toctree::
84 84 :maxdepth: 1
85 85 :hidden:
86 86
87 87 self
88 88 overview
89 89 whatsnew/index
90 90 install/index
91 91 interactive/index
92 92 config/index
93 93 development/index
94 94 coredev/index
95 95 api/index
96 96 about/index
97 97
98 98 .. seealso::
99 99
100 100 `Jupyter documentation <http://jupyter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>`__
101 The Notebook code and other pieces formerly in IPython, are now part
102 of Project Jupyter.
101 The Jupyter documentation provides information about the Notebook code and other Jupyter sub-projects.
103 102 `ipyparallel documentation <http://ipyparallel.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>`__
104 103 Formerly ``IPython.parallel``.
105 104
106 105
107 106 .. only:: html
108 107 * :ref:`genindex`
109 108 * :ref:`modindex`
110 109 * :ref:`search`
111 110
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