April 2015
Beginner
258 pages
5h 48m
English
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. ...