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IPython Notebook Essentials

By : Martins
Book Image

IPython Notebook Essentials

By: Martins

Overview of this book

If you are a professional, student, or educator who wants to learn to use IPython Notebook as a tool for technical and scientific computing, visualization, and data analysis, this is the book for you. This book will prove valuable for anyone that needs to do computations in an agile environment.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
IPython Notebook Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Editing and navigating a notebook


When we open a notebook (by either clicking on its name in the dashboard or creating a new notebook), we see the following in the browser window:

In the preceding screenshot, from the top to the bottom, we see the following components:

  • The Title bar (area marked 1) that contains the name of the notebook (in the preceding example, we can see Chapter 2) and information about the notebook version

  • The Menu bar (area marked 2) looks like a regular application menu

  • The Toolbar (area marked 3) is used for quick access to the most frequently used functionality

  • In the area marked 4, an empty computation cell is shown

Starting with IPython Version 2.0, the notebook has two modes of operation:

  • Edit: In this mode, a single cell comes into focus and we can enter text, execute code, and perform tasks related to that single cell. The Edit mode is activated by clicking on a cell or pressing the Enter key.

  • Command: In this mode, we perform tasks related to the whole notebook...