1.10 Test-Drive: Using IPython and Jupyter Notebooks

In this section, you’ll test-drive the IPython interpreter25 in two modes:

  • In interactive mode, you’ll enter small bits of Python code called snippets and immediately see their results.

  • In script mode, you’ll execute code loaded from a file that has the .py extension (short for Python). Such files are called scripts or programs, and they’re generally longer than the code snippets you’ll do in interactive mode.

Then, you’ll learn how to use the browser-based environment known as the Jupyter Notebook for writing and executing ...

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