I’ve tried many IDE’s (interactive development environments) — ones with fancy user interfaces and whizbang features — but I kept coming back to IPython.
It doesn’t look like much. No fancy icons or anything, it just runs in a terminal window. After using it though, I can’t imagine going back to anything else. The way it handles the history of everything you’ve typed, the interactive debugging, magic commands, tab-completion, and easy editing using your default text editor . . . it has all the features that lets you code quickly and easily.
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What is a Python module?
A module in Python is a collection of code that can be used in other programs. You can think of a module as being like a toolbox, where another program can import all or just a few of the tools found in the module. Here are some reasons to use modules, and some examples of their use.
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