This post shows the different ways of keeping track of your work in IPython: the command history, saving the history (or parts of the history to file) for later use, and storing variables so you don’t have to create them next time you use IPython. (more…)
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History: keep track of your work in IPython
Sunday, December 2nd, 2007Managing variables in IPython
Sunday, December 2nd, 2007After working in IPython for a while, sometimes you’d like to use a variable you created way back at the beginning, but you don’t remember exactly what it was called. Here are some useful commands for working with variables in IPython. (more…)
Getting help in IPython
Sunday, December 2nd, 2007IPython has an in-depth integrated help system. You can get help on IPython’s magic functions, view documentation from a single function, check out syntax-highlighted source code, or enter the Python interactive help system. Here’s a list of the commands to use. (more…)