Python Adventures

“IPython is an interactive shell for the Python programming language that offers enhanced introspection, additional shell syntax, syntax highlighting, tab completion and rich history. It is a component of the SciPy package.” (source)

Links:

• FrontPage – IPython (the HQ)
• IPython: A System for Interactive Scientific Computing (article, PDF)
• Cookbook – IPython
• IPython mailing list

In the book Python for Unix and Linux System Administration, there is a long chapter (Ch. 2) dedicated to IPython!

Installation and usage
Install it via apt-get:

sudo apt-get install ipython

I made the alias “ip” for the command “ipython”. Note that there is a command “ip” for manipulating routing and tunnels that the alias will hide, but it’s not likely I’ll ever use that command.

alias ip='ipython'

The config file of IPython is located at ~/.ipython/ipy_user_conf.py.