Dec 3, 2025 · IPython provides a rich architecture for interactive computing with a powerful shell, Jupyter kernel support, and flexible tools for parallel and distributed computing.

IPython stores both the commands you enter, and the results it produces. You can easily go through previous commands with the up- and down-arrow keys, or access your history in more …

Provide an interactive shell superior to Python’s default. IPython has many features for tab-completion, object introspection, system shell access, command history retrieval across …

This design was intended to allow easy development of different frontends based on the same kernel, but it also made it possible to support new languages in the same frontends, by …

IPython is organized into a number of subpackages, each of which has its own dependencies. All of the subpackages come with IPython, so you don’t need to download and install them …

Jul 26, 2019 · IPython 5.0: The release of IPython 5.0 brings a major revision of the terminal interface, including syntax highlighting as you type and better multiline editing, thanks to the …

To see the options IPython accepts, use ipython --help (and you probably should run the output through a pager such as ipython --help | less for more convenient reading).

You can also view IPython on PyPI to see version history, download statistics, and more. After installation, start IPython by running:

The normal workflow in a notebook is, then, quite similar to a standard IPython session, with the difference that you can edit cells in-place multiple times until you obtain the desired results, …

IPython (Interactive Python) was created by Fernando Pérez in 2001 as a more powerful interactive shell for Python. It evolved from Mathematica's notebook interface and was …