IPython 7.34

This version contains a single fix: fix uncaught BdbQuit exceptions on ipdb exit :ghpull:`13668`

IPython 7.33

• Allow IPython hooks to receive current cell ids when frontend support it. See :ghpull:`13600`
• ? does not trigger the insertion of a new cell anymore as most frontend allow proper multiline edition. :ghpull:`13625`

IPython 7.32

c.MagicsManager.lazy_magics = {
          "my_magic": "slow.to.import",
          "my_other_magic": "also.slow",
}

IPython 7.31

IPython 7.31 brings a couple of backports and fixes from the 8.0 branches, it is likely one of the last releases of the 7.x series, as 8.0 will probably be released between this release and what would have been 7.32.

Please test 8.0 beta/rc releases in addition to this release.

This Releases:

• Backport some fixes for Python 3.10 (:ghpull:`13412`)
• use full-alpha transparency on dvipng rendered LaTeX (:ghpull:`13372`)

Many thanks to all the contributors to this release. You can find all individual contributions to this milestone on github.

Thanks as well to the D. E. Shaw group for sponsoring work on IPython and related libraries.

IPython 7.30

IPython 7.30 fixes a couple of bugs introduce in previous releases (in particular with respect to path handling), and introduce a few features and improvements:

Notably we will highlight :ghpull:`13267` "Document that %run can execute notebooks and ipy scripts.", which is the first commit of Fernando Pérez since mid 2016 (IPython 5.1). If you are new to IPython, Fernando created IPython in 2001. The other most recent contribution of Fernando to IPython itself was May 2018, by reviewing and merging PRs. I want to note that Fernando is still active but mostly as a mentor and leader of the whole Jupyter organisation, but we're still happy to see him contribute code !

:ghpull:`13290` "Use sphinxify (if available) in object_inspect_mime path" should allow richer Repr of docstrings when using jupyterlab inspector.

:ghpull:`13311` make the debugger use ThreadPoolExecutor for debugger cmdloop. This should fix some issues/infinite loop, but let us know if you come across any regressions. In particular this fixes issues with kmaork/madbg, a remote debugger for IPython.

Note that this is likely the ante-penultimate release of IPython 7.x as a stable branch, as I hope to release IPython 8.0 as well as IPython 7.31 next month/early 2022.

IPython 8.0 will drop support for Python 3.7, removed nose as a dependency, and 7.x will only get critical bug fixes with 8.x becoming the new stable. This will not be possible without NumFOCUS Small Development Grants Which allowed us to hire Nikita Kniazev who provide Python and C++ help and contracting work.

Many thanks to all the contributors to this release. You can find all individual contributions to this milestone on github.

Thanks as well to the D. E. Shaw group for sponsoring work on IPython and related libraries.

IPython 7.29

IPython 7.29 brings a couple of new functionalities to IPython and a number of bugfixes. It is one of the largest recent release, relatively speaking, with close to 15 Pull Requests.

• fix an issue where base64 was returned instead of bytes when showing figures :ghpull:`13162`
• fix compatibility with PyQt6, PySide 6 :ghpull:`13172`. This may be of interest if you are running on Apple Silicon as only qt6.2+ is natively compatible.
• fix matplotlib qtagg eventloop :ghpull:`13179`
• Multiple docs fixes, typos, ... etc.
• Debugger will now exit by default on SigInt :ghpull:`13218`, this will be useful in notebook/lab if you forgot to exit the debugger. "Interrupt Kernel" will now exist the debugger.

It give Pdb the ability to skip code in decorators. If functions contain a special value names __debuggerskip__ = True|False, the function will not be stepped into, and Pdb will step into lower frames only if the value is set to False. The exact behavior is still likely to have corner cases and will be refined in subsequent releases. Feedback welcome. See the debugger module documentation for more info. Thanks to the D. E. Shaw group for funding this feature.

The main branch of IPython is receiving a number of changes as we received a NumFOCUS SDG ($4800), to help us finish replacing nose by pytest, and make IPython future proof with an 8.0 release.

Many thanks to all the contributors to this release. You can find all individual contributions to this milestone on github.

Thanks as well to the D. E. Shaw group for sponsoring work on IPython and related libraries.

IPython 7.28

IPython 7.28 is again a minor release that mostly bring bugfixes, and couple of improvement. Many thanks to MrMino, who again did all the work this month, and made a number of documentation improvements.

Here is a non-exhaustive list of changes,

Fixes:

• async with doesn't allow newlines :ghpull:`13090`
• Dynamically changing to vi mode via %config magic) :ghpull:`13091`

Virtualenv handling fixes:

• init_virtualenv now uses Pathlib :ghpull:`12548`
• Fix Improper path comparison of virtualenv directories :ghpull:`13140`
• Fix virtual environment user warning for lower case pathes :ghpull:`13094`
• Adapt to all sorts of drive names for cygwin :ghpull:`13153`

New Features:

• enable autoplay in embed YouTube player :ghpull:`13133`

Documentation:

• Fix formatting for the core.interactiveshell documentation :ghpull:`13118`
• Fix broken ipyparallel's refs :ghpull:`13138`
• Improve formatting of %time documentation :ghpull:`13125`
• Reword the YouTubeVideo autoplay WN :ghpull:`13147`

In [1]: from IPython.display import IFrame

In [2]: IFrame(src="src", width=300, height=300, extras=['loading="eager"'])

<iframe
    width="300"
    height="300"
    src="src"
    frameborder="0"
    allowfullscreen
    loading="eager"
></iframe>

In [1]: from IPython.display import YouTubeVideo

In [2]: YouTubeVideo("dQw4w9WgXcQ", allow_autoplay=True)

IPython 7.27

IPython 7.27 is a minor release that fixes a couple of issues and compatibility.

• Add support for GTK4 :ghpull:`131011`
• Add support for Qt6 :ghpull:`13085`
• Fix an issue with pip magic on windows :ghpull:`13093`

IPython 7.26

IPython 7.26 is a minor release that fixes a couple of issues, updates in API and Copyright/Licenses issues around various part of the codebase.

We'll highlight this issue <https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/13039> pointing out we were including and refereeing to code from Stack Overflow which was CC-BY-SA, hence incompatible with the BSD license of IPython. This lead us to a rewriting of the corresponding logic which in our case was done in a more efficient way (in our case we were searching string prefixes instead of full strings).

You will notice also a number of documentation improvements and cleanup.

Of particular interest are the following Pull-requests:

• The IPython directive now uses Sphinx logging for warnings. :ghpull:`13030`.
• Add expiry days option to pastebin magic and change http protocol to https. :ghpull:`13056`
• Make Ipython.utils.timing work with jupyterlite :ghpull:`13050`.

IPython 7.25

IPython 7.25 is a minor release that contains a single bugfix, which is highly recommended for all users of ipdb, ipython debugger %debug magic and similar.

Issuing commands like where from within the debugger would reset the local variables changes made by the user. It is interesting to look at the root cause of the issue as accessing an attribute (frame.f_locals) would trigger this side effects.

Thanks in particular to the patience from the reporters at D.E. Shaw for their initial bug report that was due to a similar coding oversight in an extension, and who took time to debug and narrow down the problem.

IPython 7.24

Third release of IPython for 2021, mostly containing bug fixes. A couple of not typical updates:

ipdb> skip_predicates readonly True

ipdb> skip_predicates
current predicates:
    tbhide : True
    readonly : False
    ipython_internal : True

# file : ~/.pdbrc
skip_predicates readonly True
skip_predicates tbhide False

IPython 7.23 and 7.23.1

Third release of IPython for 2021, mostly containing bug fixes. A couple of not typical updates:

• We moved to GitHub actions away from Travis-CI, the transition may not be 100% complete (not testing on nightly anymore), but as we ran out of Travis-Ci hours on the IPython organisation that was a necessary step. :ghpull:`12900`.
• We have a new dependency: matplotlib-inline, which try to extract matplotlib inline backend specific behavior. It is available on PyPI and conda-forge thus should not be a problem to upgrade to this version. If you are a package maintainer that might be an extra dependency to package first. :ghpull:`12817` (IPython 7.23.1 fix a typo that made this change fail)

In the addition/new feature category, display() now have a clear=True option to clear the display if any further outputs arrives, allowing users to avoid having to use clear_output() directly. :ghpull:`12823`.

In bug fixes category, this release fix an issue when printing tracebacks containing Unicode characters :ghpull:`12758`.

In code cleanup category :ghpull:`12932` remove usage of some deprecated functionality for compatibility with Python 3.10.

IPython 7.22

Second release of IPython for 2021, mostly containing bug fixes. Here is a quick rundown of the few changes.

• Fix some sys.excepthook shenanigan when embedding with qt, recommended if you – for example – use napari. :ghpull:`12842`.
• Fix bug when using the new ipdb %context magic :ghpull:`12844`
• Couples of deprecation cleanup :ghpull:`12868`
• Update for new dpast.com api if you use the %pastbin magic. :ghpull:`12712`
• Remove support for numpy before 1.16. :ghpull:`12836`

IPython 7.21

IPython 7.21 is the first release we have back on schedule of one release every month; it contains a number of minor fixes and improvements, notably, the new context command for ipdb

IPython 7.20

IPython 7.20 is the accumulation of 3 month of work on IPython, spacing between IPython release have been increased from the usual once a month for various reason.

• Mainly as I'm too busy and the effectively sole maintainer, and
• Second because not much changes happened before mid December.

The main driver for this release was the new version of Jedi 0.18 breaking API; which was taken care of in the master branch early in 2020 but not in 7.x as I though that by now 8.0 would be out.

The inclusion of a resolver in pip did not help and actually made things worse. If usually I would have simply pinned Jedi to <0.18; this is not a solution anymore as now pip is free to install Jedi 0.18, and downgrade IPython.

I'll do my best to keep the regular release, but as the 8.0-dev branch and 7.x are starting to diverge this is becoming difficult in particular with my limited time, so if you have any cycles to spare I'll appreciate your help to respond to issues and pushing 8.0 forward.

Here are thus some of the changes for IPython 7.20.

• Support for PyQt5 >= 5.11 :ghpull:`12715`
• %reset remove imports more agressively :ghpull:`12718`
• fix the %conda magic :ghpull:`12739`
• compatibility with Jedi 0.18, and bump minimum Jedi version. :ghpull:`12793`

IPython 7.19

IPython 7.19 accumulative two month of works, bug fixes and improvements, there was exceptionally no release last month.

• Fix to restore the ability to specify more than one extension using command line flags when using traitlets 5.0 :ghpull:`12543`
• Docs docs formatting that make the install commands work on zsh :ghpull:`12587`
• Always display the last frame in tracebacks even if hidden with __tracebackhide__ :ghpull:`12601`
• Avoid an issue where a callback can be registered multiple times. :ghpull:`12625`
• Avoid an issue in debugger mode where frames changes could be lost. :ghpull:`12627`
• Never hide the frames that invoke a debugger, even if marked as hidden by __tracebackhide__ :ghpull:`12631`
• Fix calling the debugger in a recursive manner :ghpull:`12659`

A number of code changes have landed on master and we are getting close to enough new features and codebase improvement that a 8.0 start to make sens. For downstream packages, please start working on migrating downstream testing away from iptest and using pytest, as nose will not work on Python 3.10 and we will likely start removing it as a dependency for testing.

IPython 7.18

IPython 7.18 is a minor release that mostly contains bugfixes.

• CRLF is now handled by magics my default; solving some issues due to copy pasting on windows. :ghpull:`12475`
• Requiring pexpect >=4.3 as we are Python 3.7+ only and earlier version of pexpect will be incompatible. :ghpull:`12510`
• Minimum jedi version is now 0.16. :ghpull:`12488`

IPython 7.17

IPython 7.17 brings a couple of new improvements to API and a couple of user facing changes to make the terminal experience more user friendly.

:ghpull:`12407` introduces the ability to pass extra argument to the IPython debugger class; this is to help a new project from kmaork (https://github.com/kmaork/madbg) to feature a fully remote debugger.

:ghpull:`12410` finally remove support for 3.6, while the codebase is still technically compatible; IPython will not install on Python 3.6.

lots of work on the debugger and hidden frames from @impact27 in :ghpull:`12437`, :ghpull:`12445`, :ghpull:`12460` and in particular :ghpull:`12453` which make the debug magic more robust at handling spaces.

Biggest API addition is code transformation which is done before code execution; IPython allows a number of hooks to catch non-valid Python syntax (magic, prompt stripping...etc). Transformers are usually called many time; typically:

• When trying to figure out whether the code is complete and valid (should we insert a new line or execute ?)
• During actual code execution pass before giving the code to Python's exec.

This lead to issues when transformer might have had side effects; or do external queries. Starting with IPython 7.17 you can expect your transformer to be called less time.

Input transformers are now called only once in the execution path of InteractiveShell, allowing to register transformer that potentially have side effects (note that this is not recommended). Internal methods should_run_async, and run_cell_async now take a recommended optional transformed_cell, and preprocessing_exc_tuple parameters that will become mandatory at some point in the future; that is to say cells need to be explicitly transformed to be valid Python syntax ahead of trying to run them. :ghpull:`12440`;

input_transformers can now also have an attribute has_side_effects set to True, when this attribute is present; this will prevent the transformers from being ran when IPython is trying to guess whether the user input is complete. Note that this may means you will need to explicitly execute in some case where your transformations are now not ran; but will not affect users with no custom extensions.

+ IPython.core.interactiveshell.InteractiveShell.get_local_scope

+ IPython.terminal.embed.InteractiveShellEmbed.get_local_scope
+ IPython.terminal.interactiveshell.TerminalInteractiveShell.get_local_scope

IPython 7.16.1, 7.16.2

IPython 7.16.1 was release immediately after 7.16.0 to fix a conda packaging issue. The source is identical to 7.16.0 but the file permissions in the tar are different.

IPython 7.16.2 pins jedi dependency to "<=0.17.2" which should prevent some issues for users still on python 3.6. This may not be sufficient as pip may still allow to downgrade IPython.

Compatibility with Jedi > 0.17.2 was not added as this would have meant bumping the minimal version to >0.16.

IPython 7.16

The default traceback mode will now skip frames that are marked with __tracebackhide__ = True and show how many traceback frames have been skipped. This can be toggled by using :magic:`xmode` with the --show or --hide attribute. It will have no effect on non verbose traceback modes.

The ipython debugger also now understands __tracebackhide__ as well and will skip hidden frames when displaying. Movement up and down the stack will skip the hidden frames and will show how many frames were hidden. Internal IPython frames are also now hidden by default. The behavior can be changed with the skip_hidden while in the debugger, command and accepts "yes", "no", "true" and "false" case insensitive parameters.

+ IPython.core.debugger.Pdb.do_down(self, arg)
+ IPython.core.debugger.Pdb.do_skip_hidden(self, arg)
+ IPython.core.debugger.Pdb.do_up(self, arg)
+ IPython.core.debugger.Pdb.hidden_frames(self, stack)
+ IPython.core.debugger.Pdb.stop_here(self, frame)

- IPython.core.debugger.Pdb.new_do_down
- IPython.core.debugger.Pdb.new_do_up

IPython 7.15

IPython 7.15 brings a number of bug fixes and user facing improvements.

IPython 7.14

IPython 7.14 is a minor release that fix a couple of bugs and prepare compatibility with new or future versions of some libraries.

IPython 7.13

IPython 7.13 is the final release of the 7.x branch since master is diverging toward an 8.0. Exiting new features have already been merged in 8.0 and will not be available on the 7.x branch. All the changes below have been backported from the master branch.

• Fix inability to run PDB when inside an event loop :ghpull:`12141`
• Fix ability to interrupt some processes on windows :ghpull:`12137`
• Fix debugger shortcuts :ghpull:`12132`
• improve tab completion when inside a string by removing irrelevant elements :ghpull:`12128`
• Fix display of filename tab completion when the path is long :ghpull:`12122`
• Many removal of Python 2 specific code path :ghpull:`12110`
• displaying wav files do not require NumPy anymore, and is 5x to 30x faster :ghpull:`12113`

See the list of all closed issues and pull request on github.

IPython 7.12

IPython 7.12 is a minor update that mostly brings code cleanup, removal of longtime deprecated function and a couple update to documentation cleanup as well.

Notable changes are the following:

• Exit non-zero when ipython is given a file path to run that doesn't exist :ghpull:`12074`
• Test PR on ARM64 with Travis-CI :ghpull:`12073`
• Update CI to work with latest Pytest :ghpull:`12086`
• Add infrastructure to run ipykernel eventloop via trio :ghpull:`12097`
• Support git blame ignore revs :ghpull:`12091`
• Start multi-line __repr__ s on their own line :ghpull:`12099`

IPython 7.11.1

A couple of deprecated functions (no-op) have been reintroduces in py3compat as Cython was still relying on them, and will be removed in a couple of versions.

IPython 7.11

IPython 7.11 received a couple of compatibility fixes and code cleanup.

A number of function in the py3compat have been removed; a number of types in the IPython code base are now non-ambiguous and now always unicode instead of Union[Unicode,bytes]; many of the relevant code path have thus been simplified/cleaned and types annotation added.

IPython support several verbosity level from exceptions. xmode plain now support chained exceptions. :ghpull:`11999`

We are starting to remove shell=True in some usages of subprocess. While not directly a security issue (as IPython is made to run arbitrary code anyway) it is not good practice and we'd like to show the example. :ghissue:`12023`. This discussion was started by @mschwager thanks to a new auditing tool they are working on with duo-labs (dlint).

Work around some bugs in Python 3.9 tokenizer :ghpull:`12057`

IPython will now print its version after a crash. :ghpull:`11986`

This is likely the last release from the 7.x series that will see new feature. The master branch will soon accept large code changes and thrilling new features; the 7.x branch will only start to accept critical bug fixes, and update dependencies.

IPython 7.10.2

IPython 7.10.2 fix a couple of extra incompatibility between IPython, ipdb, asyncio and Prompt Toolkit 3.

IPython 7.10.1

IPython 7.10.1 fix a couple of incompatibilities with Prompt toolkit 3 (please update Prompt toolkit to 3.0.2 at least), and fixes some interaction with headless IPython.

IPython 7.10.0

IPython 7.10 is the first double digit minor release in the last decade, and first since the release of IPython 1.0, previous double digit minor release was in August 2009.

We've been trying to give you regular release on the last Friday of every month for a guaranty of rapid access to bug fixes and new features.

Unlike the previous first few releases that have seen only a couple of code changes, 7.10 bring a number of changes, new features and bugfixes.

+ IPython.terminal.shortcuts.reformat_text_before_cursor(buffer, document, shell)
+ IPython.terminal.interactiveshell.PTK3
+ IPython.terminal.interactiveshell.black_reformat_handler(text_before_cursor)
+ IPython.terminal.prompts.RichPromptDisplayHook.write_format_data(self, format_dict, md_dict='None')

- IPython.lib.pretty.DICT_IS_ORDERED

- IPython.extensions.storemagic.restore_aliases(ip)
+ IPython.extensions.storemagic.restore_aliases(ip, alias='None')

IPython 7.9.0

IPython 7.9 is a small release with a couple of improvement and bug fixes.

• Xterm terminal title should be restored on exit :ghpull:`11910`
• special variables _,``__``, ___ are not set anymore when cache size is 0 or less. :ghpull:`11877`
• Autoreload should have regained some speed by using a new heuristic logic to find all objects needing reload. This should avoid large objects traversal like pandas dataframes. :ghpull:`11876`
• Get ready for Python 4. :ghpull:`11874`
• %env Magic now has heuristic to hide potentially sensitive values :ghpull:`11896`

This is a small release despite a number of Pull Request Pending that need to be reviewed/worked on. Many of the core developers have been busy outside of IPython/Jupyter and we thanks all contributor for their patience; we'll work on these as soon as we have time.

IPython 7.8.0

IPython 7.8.0 contain a few bugfix and 2 new APIs:

• Enable changing the font color for LaTeX rendering :ghpull:`11840`
• and Re-Expose some PDB API (see below)

from IPython.terminal.debugger import TerminalPdb
pdb = TerminalPdb(skip=["skipthismodule"])

IPython 7.7.0

IPython 7.7.0 contain multiple bug fixes and documentation updates; Here are a few of the outstanding issue fixed:

• Fix a bug introduced in 7.6 where the %matplotlib magic would fail on previously acceptable arguments :ghpull:`11814`.
• Fix the manage location on freebsd :ghpull:`11808`.
• Fix error message about aliases after %reset call in ipykernel :ghpull:`11806`
• Fix Duplication completions in emacs :ghpull:`11803`

We are planning to adopt NEP29 (still currently in draft) which may make this minor version of IPython the last one to support Python 3.5 and will make the code base more aggressive toward removing compatibility with older versions of Python.

GitHub now support to give only "Triage" permissions to users; if you'd like to help close stale issues and labels issues please reach to us with your GitHub Username and we'll add you to the triage team. It is a great way to start contributing and a path toward getting commit rights.

IPython 7.6.1

IPython 7.6.1 contain a critical bugfix in the %timeit magic, which would crash on some inputs as a side effect of :ghpull:`11716`. See :ghpull:`11812`

IPython 7.6.0

IPython 7.6.0 contains a couple of bug fixes and number of small features additions as well as some compatibility with the current development version of Python 3.8.

• Add a -l option to :magic:`psearch` to list the available search types. :ghpull:`11672`
• Support PathLike for DisplayObject and Image. :ghpull:`11764`
• Configurability of timeout in the test suite for slow platforms. :ghpull:`11756`
• Accept any casing for matplotlib backend. :ghpull:`121748`
• Properly skip test that requires numpy to be installed :ghpull:`11723`
• More support for Python 3.8 and positional only arguments (pep570) :ghpull:`11720`
• Unicode names for the completion are loaded lazily on first use which should decrease startup time. :ghpull:`11693`
• Autoreload now update the types of reloaded objects; this for example allow pickling of reloaded objects. :ghpull:`11644`
• Fix a bug where %%time magic would suppress cell output. :ghpull:`11716`

IPython 7.5.0

IPython 7.5.0 consist mostly of bug-fixes, and documentation updates, with one minor new feature. The Audio display element can now be assigned an element id when displayed in browser. See :ghpull:`11670`

The major outstanding bug fix correct a change of behavior that was introduce in 7.4.0 where some cell magics would not be able to access or modify global scope when using the @needs_local_scope decorator. This was typically encountered with the %%time and %%timeit magics. See :ghissue:`11659` and :ghpull:`11698`.

IPython 7.4.0

'LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A',
'LATIN CAPITAL LETTER B',
'LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C',
'LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D',
....

IPython 7.3.0

IPython 7.3.0 bring several bug fixes and small improvements that you will described bellow.

The biggest change to this release is the implementation of the %conda and %pip magics, that will attempt to install packages in the current environment. You may still need to restart your interpreter or kernel for the change to be taken into account, but it should simplify installation of packages into remote environment. Installing using pip/conda from the command line is still the prefer method.

The %pip magic was already present, but was only printing a warning; now it will actually forward commands to pip.

Misc bug fixes and improvements:

• Compatibility with Python 3.8.
• Do not expand shell variable in execution magics, and added the no_var_expand decorator for magic requiring a similar functionality :ghpull:`11516`
• Add %pip and %conda magic :ghpull:`11524`
• Re-initialize posix aliases after a %reset :ghpull:`11528`
• Allow the IPython command line to run *.ipynb files :ghpull:`11529`

IPython 7.2.0

IPython 7.2.0 brings minor bugfixes, improvements, and new configuration options:

• Fix a bug preventing PySide2 GUI integration from working :ghpull:`11464`
• Run CI on Mac OS ! :ghpull:`11471`
• Fix IPython "Demo" mode. :ghpull:`11498`
• Fix %run magic with path in name :ghpull:`11499`
• Fix: add CWD to sys.path after stdlib :ghpull:`11502`
• Better rendering of signatures, especially long ones. :ghpull:`11505`
• Re-enable jedi by default if it's installed :ghpull:`11506`
• Add New minimal exception reporting mode (useful for educational purpose). See :ghpull:`11509`

In [1]: cd /
/

In [2]: %config OSMagics.cd_force_quiet = True

In [3]: cd /tmp

In [4]:

IPython 7.1.0

IPython 7.1.0 is the first minor release after 7.0.0 and mostly brings fixes to new features, internal refactoring, and fixes for regressions that happened during the 6.x->7.x transition. It also brings Compatibility with Python 3.7.1, as we're unwillingly relying on a bug in CPython.

New Core Dev:

• We welcome Jonathan Slenders to the commiters. Jonathan has done a fantastic work on prompt_toolkit, and we'd like to recognise his impact by giving him commit rights. :ghissue:`11397`

Notable Changes

• Major update of "latex to unicode" tab completion map (see below)

Notable New Features:

• Restore functionality and documentation of the sphinx directive, which is now stricter (fail on error by daefault), has new configuration options, has a brand new documentation page :ref:`ipython_directive` (which needs some cleanup). It is also now tested so we hope to have less regressions. :ghpull:`11402`
• IPython.display.Video now supports width and height arguments, allowing a custom width and height to be set instead of using the video's width and height. :ghpull:`11353`
• Warn when using HTML('<iframe>') instead of IFrame :ghpull:`11350`
• Allow Dynamic switching of editing mode between vi/emacs and show normal/input mode in prompt when using vi. :ghpull:`11390`. Use %config TerminalInteractiveShell.editing_mode = 'vi' or %config TerminalInteractiveShell.editing_mode = 'emacs' to dynamically switch between modes.

Notable Fixes:

• Fix entering of multi-line blocks in terminal IPython, and various crashes in the new input transformation machinery :ghpull:`11354`, :ghpull:`11356`, :ghpull:`11358`. These also fix a Compatibility bug with Python 3.7.1.
• Fix moving through generator stack in ipdb :ghpull:`11266`
• %Magic command arguments now support quoting. :ghpull:`11330`
• Re-add rprint and rprinte aliases. :ghpull:`11331`
• Remove implicit dependency on ipython_genutils :ghpull:`11317`
• Make nonlocal raise SyntaxError instead of silently failing in async mode. :ghpull:`11382`
• Fix mishandling of magics and = ! assignment just after a dedent in nested code blocks :ghpull:`11418`
• Fix instructions for custom shortcuts :ghpull:`11426`

Notable Internals improvements:

• Use of os.scandir (Python 3 only) to speed up some file system operations. :ghpull:`11365`
• use perf_counter instead of clock for more precise timing results with %time :ghpull:`11376`

Many thanks to all the contributors and in particular to bartskowron and tonyfast who handled some pretty complicated bugs in the input machinery. We had a number of first time contributors and maybe hacktoberfest participants that made significant contributions and helped us free some time to focus on more complicated bugs.

You can see all the closed issues and Merged PR, new features and fixes here.

IPython 7.0.0

Released Thursday September 27th, 2018

IPython 7 includes major feature improvements. This is also the second major version of IPython to support only Python 3 – starting at Python 3.4. Python 2 is still community-supported on the bugfix only 5.x branch, but we remind you that Python 2 "end of life" is on Jan 1st 2020.

We were able to backport bug fixes to the 5.x branch thanks to our backport bot which backported more than 70 Pull-Requests, but there are still many PRs that required manual work. This is an area of the project where you can easily contribute by looking for PRs that still need manual backport

The IPython 6.x branch will likely not see any further release unless critical bugs are found.

Make sure you have pip > 9.0 before upgrading. You should be able to update by running:

pip install ipython --upgrade

Or, if you have conda installed:

conda install ipython

Python 3.6.0
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IPython 7.0.0 -- An enhanced Interactive Python. Type '?' for help.

In [1]: import aiohttp
   ...: result = aiohttp.get('https://api.github.com')

In [2]: response = await result
<pause for a few 100s ms>

In [3]: await response.json()
Out[3]:
{'authorizations_url': 'https://api.github.com/authorizations',
 'code_search_url': 'https://api.github.com/search/code?q={query}{&page,per_page,sort,order}',
...
}

In [1]: %autoawait trio

In [2]: import trio

In [3]: async def child(i):
   ...:     print("   child %s goes to sleep"%i)
   ...:     await trio.sleep(2)
   ...:     print("   child %s wakes up"%i)

In [4]: print('parent start')
   ...: async with trio.open_nursery() as n:
   ...:     for i in range(3):
   ...:         n.spawn(child, i)
   ...: print('parent end')
parent start
   child 2 goes to sleep
   child 0 goes to sleep
   child 1 goes to sleep
   <about 2 seconds pause>
   child 2 wakes up
   child 1 wakes up
   child 0 wakes up
parent end

# notebook

from mymodule import MyClass
first = MyClass(5)

# mymodule/file1.py

class MyClass:

    def __init__(self, a=10):
        self.a = a

    def square(self):
        print('compute square')
        return self.a*self.a

    # def cube(self):
    #     print('compute cube')
    #     return self.a*self.a*self.a