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Python Data Science Essentials
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Python Data Science Essentials

by Alberto Boschetti
April 2015
Beginner content levelBeginner
258 pages
5h 48m
English
Packt Publishing
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Introducing IPython

IPython is a special tool for interactive tasks, which contains special commands that help the developer better understand the code that they are currently writing. These are the commands:

  • <object>? and <object>??: This prints a detailed description (with ?? being even more verbose) of the <object>
  • %<function>: This uses the special <magic function>

Let's demonstrate the usage of these commands with an example. We first start the interactive console with the ipython command that is used to run IPython, as shown here:

$> ipython
Python 2.7.6 (default, Sep  9 2014, 15:04:36)
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
IPython 2.3.1 -- An enhanced Interactive Python.
? -> Introduction and overview of IPython's features. ...
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