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IPython provides a rich toolkit to help you make the most out of using Python
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interactively. Its main components are:
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* A powerful interactive Python shell
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* A `Jupyter <https://jupyter.org/>`_ kernel to work with Python code in Jupyter
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notebooks and other interactive frontends.
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The enhanced interactive Python shells have the following main features:
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* Comprehensive object introspection.
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* Input history, persistent across sessions.
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* Caching of output results during a session with automatically generated
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references.
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* Extensible tab completion, with support by default for completion of python
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variables and keywords, filenames and function keywords.
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* Extensible system of 'magic' commands for controlling the environment and
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performing many tasks related either to IPython or the operating system.
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* A rich configuration system with easy switching between different setups
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(simpler than changing $PYTHONSTARTUP environment variables every time).
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* Session logging and reloading.
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* Extensible syntax processing for special purpose situations.
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* Access to the system shell with user-extensible alias system.
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* Easily embeddable in other Python programs and GUIs.
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* Integrated access to the pdb debugger and the Python profiler.
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The latest development version is always available from IPython's `GitHub
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site <http://github.com/ipython>`_.
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