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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

IPython


 

"IPython is comparatively mature, and there are consequently fewer major changes planned."

 
 --The Jupyter project

Despite its maturity, there is still a lot of work to be done on IPython. The official GitHub repository (https://github.com/ipython) lists 933 open issues for the core of IPython, not including popular modules such as ipyparallel, ipykernel, and nbconvert.

The repository also contains a wiki with a roadmap (https://github.com/ipython/ipython/wiki/Roadmap:-IPython). Unfortunately, the roadmap has not been updated since 2014.

IPython used a system of IPython Enhancement Proposals (IPEPs) similar to Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs) in order to organize ongoing projects. A list can be found at https://github.com/ipython/ipython/wiki/IPEPs:-IPython-Enhancement-Proposals. While an interesting historical document, no IPEP has been modified since 2014. The sole exception is a note in IPEP 29 (project governance) stating that the document is now being maintained as part of project...