ipython 0.10

An interactive computing environment for Python

The goal of IPython is to create a comprehensive environment for interactive and exploratory computing. To support this goal, IPython has two main components:

• An enhanced interactive Python shell.
• An architecture for interactive parallel computing.

The enhanced interactive Python shell has the following 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 and wxPython GUIs.
• Integrated access to the pdb debugger and the Python profiler.

The parallel computing architecture has the following main features:

• Quickly parallelize Python code from an interactive Python/IPython session.
• A flexible and dynamic process model that be deployed on anything from multicore workstations to supercomputers.
• An architecture that supports many different styles of parallelism, from message passing to task farming.
• Both blocking and fully asynchronous interfaces.
• High level APIs that enable many things to be parallelized in a few lines of code.
• Share live parallel jobs with other users securely.
• Dynamically load balanced task farming system.
• Robust error handling in parallel code.

The latest development version is always available from IPython's Launchpad site.

• Author: The IPython Development Team <ipython-dev at scipy org>
• Home Page: http://ipython.scipy.org
• Download URL: http://ipython.scipy.org/dist
• Keywords: Interactive,Interpreter,Shell,Parallel,Distributed
• License: BSD
• Platform: Linux,Mac OSX,Windows XP/2000/NT,Windows 95/98/ME
• Package Index Owner: fperez
• DOAP record: ipython-0.10.xml