Published: 08 December 2020, 18:00
IPython is an alternative interactive shell for Python. It has syntax highlighting, powerful introspection and autocomplete, searchable cross-session history, and much more. Run %quickref
in IPython to get a quick reference on useful commands and shortcuts. Some of our favorite ones:
obj?
- print short object info, including signature and docstring.obj??
- same as above but also shows the object source code if available.!cd my_project/
- execute a shell command.%timeit list(range(1000))
- run a statement many times and show the execution time statistics.%hist
- show the history for the current session.%run
- run a file in the current session.