Offers a powerful interactive Python shell.Īcts as a main kernel for Jupyter notebook and other front end tools of Project Jupyter. IPython offers more features compared to the standard Python. IPython (stands for Interactive Python) is an enhanced interactive environment for Python with many functionalities compared to the standard Python shell.

Standard distribution of Python comes with a REPL (Read-Evaluate-Print Loop) environment in the form of Python shell with > prompt. JupyterLab − Modern web based integrated interface for all products. Nbviewer − Facility to share Jupyter notebooks

QtConsole − Qt based terminal for Jupyter kernels similar to IPython Jupyter notebook − A web based interface to programming environments of Python, Julia, R and many others

In 2014, Project Jupyter started as a spin-off project from IPython.

A web based interface to IPython terminal in the form of IPython notebook was introduced in 2011. IPython was originally developed by Fernando Perez in 2001 as an enhanced Python interpreter. Project Jupyter is a suite of software products used in interactive computing.

Setting IPython as Default Python Environment.

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