IPython: Productive Interactive Computing

IPython provides a rich toolkit to help you make the most out of using Python interactively. Its main components are:

• Powerful interactive Python shells (terminal- and Qt-based).
• Support for interactive data visualization and use of GUI toolkits.
• Flexible, embeddable interpreters to load into your own projects.
• Tools for high level and interactive parallel computing.

Fernando Pérez, Brian E. Granger, IPython: A System for Interactive Scientific Computing, Computing in Science and Engineering, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 21-29, May/June 2007, doi:10.1109/MCSE.2007.53. URL: http://ipython.org

Details are available at http://ipython.org/citing.html

The official documentation in HTML and PDF can be found at http://ipython.org/documentation.html. See also the introducing tutorial. A DjVu version for download (or preview with plugin) is here (IPy version 0.11).

DjVu viewers and plugins for various OSs may be found at http://windjview.sourceforge.net/ and http://djvu.org/.