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Mastering IPython 4.0

By : Thomas Bitterman, Dipanjan Deb
Book Image

Mastering IPython 4.0

By: Thomas Bitterman, Dipanjan Deb

Overview of this book

IPython is an interactive computational environment in which you can combine code execution, rich text, mathematics, plots, and rich media. This book will get IPython developers up to date with the latest advancements in IPython and dive deep into interactive computing with IPython. This an advanced guide on interactive and parallel computing with IPython will explore advanced visualizations and high-performance computing with IPython in detail. You will quickly brush up your knowledge of IPython kernels and wrapper kernels, then we'?ll move to advanced concepts such as testing, Sphinx, JS events, interactive work, and the ZMQ cluster. The book will cover topics such as IPython Console Lexer, advanced configuration, and third-party tools. By the end of this book, you will be able to use IPython for interactive and parallel computing in a high-performance computing environment.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering IPython 4.0
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
6
Works Well with Others – IPython and Third-Party Tools
Index

Installation and startup


Jupyter can be installed using pip:

pip install jupyter

It can be started like this:

(my_rpy2_zone)-bash-4.1$ ipython notebook
[I 10:38:27.193 NotebookApp] Serving notebooks from local directory: /nfs/02/wit0096
[I 10:38:27.193 NotebookApp] 0 active kernels 
[I 10:38:27.193 NotebookApp] The Jupyter Notebook is running at: http://localhost:8888/
[I 10:38:27.193 NotebookApp] Use Control-C to stop this server and shut down all kernels (twice to skip confirmation).
/usr/bin/xdg-open: line 402: htmlview: command not found
console.error:
  [CustomizableUI]
  Custom widget with id loop-button does not return a valid node
console.error:
  [CustomizableUI]
  Custom widget with id loop-button does not return a valid node
1457711201438   addons.update-checker   WARN    Update manifest for {972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd} did not contain an updates property

Note that this has started an HTML server (called the Jupyter Notebook App) on port 8888. It may also (depending...