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The document discusses IPython features including commands like ?, %quickref, help, object?, %env, %cd, %colors, %dirs, %doctest_mode, %edit, %gui, %history, %logon, %logoff, %logstart, and %lsmagic. IPython allows interactive Python programming with additional features beyond the standard Python prompt.

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The document discusses IPython features including commands like ?, %quickref, help, object?, %env, %cd, %colors, %dirs, %doctest_mode, %edit, %gui, %history, %logon, %logoff, %logstart, and %lsmagic. IPython allows interactive Python programming with additional features beyond the standard Python prompt.

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• You don’t need to know anything beyond

Python to start using IPython – just type


commands as you would at the standard
Python prompt.
• But IPython can do much more than the
standard prompt
four most helpful commands
•

Command Description

? Introduction and overview of IPython’s features.

%quickref Quick reference.

help Python’s own help system.

object? Details about ‘object’, use ‘object??’ for extra details.


• %env : Get, set, or list environment variables.
• Usage:
• %env: lists all environment variables/values
%env var: get value for var %env var val: set
value for var %env var=val: set value for var
%env var=$val: set value for var, using python
expansion if possible
• %cd Change the current working directory.
• This command automatically maintains an internal list of directories you visit
during your IPython session, in the variable _dh. The command %dhist shows
this history nicely formatted. You can also do ‘cd -<tab>’ to see directory history
conveniently.
• Usage:
• cd ‘dir’: changes to directory ‘dir’.
• cd -: changes to the last visited directory.
• cd -<n>: changes to the n-th directory in the directory history.
• cd –foo: change to directory that matches ‘foo’ in history
• cd -b <bookmark_name>: jump to a bookmark set by %bookmark(note: cd
<bookmark_name> is enough if there is nodirectory <bookmark_name>, but a
bookmark with the name exists.) ‘cd -b <tab>’ allows you to tab-complete
bookmark names.
• %colorsSwitch color scheme for prompts, info
system and exception handlers.
• Currently implemented schemes: NoColor,
Linux, LightBG.
• Color scheme names are not case-sensitive.
• Examples
• To get a plain black and white terminal:
• %colors nocolor
• %dirs
• Return the current directory stack.
• %doctest_modeToggle doctest mode on and off.
• This mode is intended to make IPython behave as
much as possible like a plain Python shell, from the
perspective of how its prompts, exceptions and
output look. This makes it easy to copy and paste
parts of a session into doctests. It does so by:
– Changing the prompts to the classic >>> ones.
– Changing the exception reporting mode to ‘Plain’.
– Disabling pretty-printing of output.
• %edit
• Bring up an editor and execute the resulting
code.
• Usage:%edit [options] [args]
• %gui wx
• # enable wx
• %gui qt4|qt
• %gui qt5
• %history
• %history [-n] [-o] [-p] [-t] [-f FILENAME] [-g
[PATTERN [PATTERN ...]]] [-l [LIMIT]] [-u] [range
[range ...]]
• 4
• Line 4, current session
• 4-6 Lines 4-6, current session
• 243/1-5
• Lines 1-5, session 243
• ~2/7Line 7, session 2 before current~
• 8/1-~6/5 From the first line of 8 sessions ago, to the
fifth line of 6 sessions ago.
• Ex: %history -n 4-6
• %logon
• %logoff
• %logstart
• %lsmagic¶
• List currently available magic functions.

• %macro

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