You can manually download IPython from GitHub or PyPI. To install one of these versions, unpack it and run the following from the top-level source directory using the Terminal:

The IPython shell will work without readline, but will lack many features that users depend on, such as tab completion and command line editing. If you install IPython with pip, then the …

The IPython Notebook is now known as the Jupyter Notebook. It is an interactive computational environment, in which you can combine code execution, rich text, mathematics, plots and rich …

Jul 26, 2019 · IPython 5.0: The release of IPython 5.0 brings a major revision of the terminal interface, including syntax highlighting as you type and better multiline editing, thanks to the …

To see the options IPython accepts, use ipython --help (and you probably should run the output through a pager such as ipython --help | less for more convenient reading).

Documentation ¶ IPython documentation is now hosted on the Read the Docs service. Other pieces ¶ Many pieces which were previously part of IPython were split out in version 4, and …

PyZMQ provides wheels for current Python on OS X and Windows, so installing pyzmq will typically not require compilation. IPython.parallel can use SSH tunnels, which require …

Given a properly built Python, the basic interactive IPython shell will work with no external dependencies. However, some Python distributions (particularly on Windows and OS X), don’t …

IPython stores both the commands you enter, and the results it produces. You can easily go through previous commands with the up- and down-arrow keys, or access your history in more …

You can call IPython as a python shell inside your own python programs. This can be used both for debugging code or for providing interactive abilities to your programs with knowledge about …