A profile is specific to a user on the local computer, and contains IPython preferences as well as the history, temporary and log files, and so on. By default, there is a single profile called the default profile. To create it manually, we can run the following command in the system shell:
ipython profile create
To specify a profile's name, we can use ipython profile create name.
Profiles are typically stored in ~/.ipython or ~/.config/ipython, where ~ is the current user's home directory. This directory is typically called the IPython directory
and is sometimes referred to as IPYTHONDIR. To find the exact location of the profiles, we can run the ipython locate command for the IPython configuration directory, or ipython locate profile default for a specific profile directory, where default is the profile's name. A profile name is typically stored in a folder named profile_name within the IPython configuration folder.