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Secret Recipes of the Python Ninja
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Secret Recipes of the Python Ninja

by Cody Jackson
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
380 pages
9h 37m
English
Packt Publishing
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Using alternative Python shells – IPython

While usable, the default shell for the Python interpreter has significant limitations when compared to what computers can do nowadays. For starters, the regular Python interactive interpreter does not support syntax highlight or auto-indenting, among other features.

IPython is one of the most popular replacement interactive shells for Python. Some of the features IPython offers compared to vanilla Python include:

  • Comprehensive object introspection, allowing access to docstrings, source code, and other objects accessible to the interpreter
  • Persistent input history
  • Caching output results
  • Extendable tab completion, with support for variables, keywords, functions, and filenames
  • magic commands (denoted ...
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