Toggle between the currently active color scheme and NoColor.

Switch color scheme for prompts, info system and exception handlers. Currently implemented schemes: NoColor, Linux, LightBG. Color s

Transform a list of strings into a single string with columns. Parameters ---------- items : sequence of strings The strings to

Flags currently active in the compilation process.

Return the completed text and a list of completions. Parameters ---------- text : string A string of text to

Custom completer dispatching for python objects. Parameters ---------- obj : object The object to complete. prev_completions

Run the conda package manager within the current kernel. Usage: %conda install [pkgs]

configure IPython %config Class[.trait=value] This magic exposes most of the IPython config system. Any Configurable cla

Configure an IPython shell object for matplotlib use. Parameters ---------- shell : InteractiveShell instance backend : matplotlib b

Return a full copy of the object, optionally renaming it.

Return full copy of object

Paste & execute a pre-formatted code block from clipboard. You must terminate the block with '--' (two minus-signs) or Ctrl-D alone o

a light excepthook, adding a small message to the usual traceback

Creates a Windows pipe, which consists of two handles. The 'uninherit' parameter controls which handle is not inherit

DEPRECATED since IPython 5.0 Return a string indicating the currently active GUI or None.

Print the value of an expression from the caller's frame. Takes an expression, evaluates it in the caller's frame and prints both the given e

Substitute Decimals for floats in a string of statements. Based on an example from the tokenize module docs.

Replacement for __import__()

Return a config object with good defaults for testing.

Make an entry in the options_table for fn, with value optstr

Return the string of delimiter characters.

Print your history of visited directories. %dhist -> print full history\\ %dhist n -> print last n entries only\\ %

Match string keys in a dictionary, after e.g. 'foo['

Return the current directory stack.

DEPRECATED since IPython 5.0 Disable event loop integration with glut. This sets PyOS_InputHook to NULL and set the display

DEPRECATED since IPython 5.0 Disable event loop integration with PyQt4. This restores appnapp on OS X

Display the HTML representation of an object. Note: If raw=False and the object does not have a HTML representation, no HTML will be shown.

Display the Javascript representation of an object. Parameters ---------- objs : tuple of objects The Python objects to display,

Display the JPEG representation of an object. Parameters ---------- objs : tuple of objects The Python objects to display, or if

Display the JSON representation of an object. Note that not many frontends support displaying JSON. Parameters ---------- objs : tup

Display the LaTeX representation of an object. Parameters ---------- objs : tuple of objects The Python objects to display, or if

Displays the Markdown representation of an object. Parameters ---------- objs : tuple of objects The Python objects to display, o

Just display, no paging. screen_lines is ignored.

Display the PDF representation of an object. Parameters ---------- objs : tuple of objects The Python objects to display, or if r

Display the PNG representation of an object. Parameters ---------- objs : tuple of objects The Python objects to display, or if r

Display the pretty (default) representation of an object. Parameters ---------- objs : tuple of objects The Python objects to dis

Display the SVG representation of an object. Parameters ---------- objs : tuple of objects The Python objects to display, or if r

debug code Enter a recursive debugger that steps through the code argument (which is an arbitrary expression or statement to be

d(own) [count] Move the current frame count (default one) levels down in the stack trace (to a newer frame). Will skip hidden

Print lines of code from the current stack frame

Print lines of code from the current stack frame. Shows more lines than 'list' does.

Print the call signature for any callable object. The debugger interface to %pdef

Print the docstring for an object. The debugger interface to %pdoc.

Print (or run through pager) the file where an object is defined. The debugger interface to %pfile.

Provide detailed information about an object. The debugger interface to %pinfo, i.e., obj?.

Provide extra detailed information about an object. The debugger interface to %pinfo2, i.e., obj??.

Print (or run through pager) the source code for an object.

Change whether or not we should skip frames with the __tracebackhide__ attribute.

u(p) [count] Move the current frame count (default one) levels up in the stack trace (to an older frame). Will skip hidden fr

w(here) Print a stack trace, with the most recent frame at the bottom. An arrow indicates the "current frame", which determines the

In [1]: def f1(a,b,c): ...: return a+b+c ...: In [2]: def f2(a): ...: return a + a ...: In [3]: def

A function whose doctest we need to skip. >>> 1+1 3

Test %hist -f with temporary filename. In [9]: import tempfile In [10]: tfile = tempfile.mktemp('.py','tmp-ipython-') In [11]: %hist -n

Test %hist -op In [1]: class b(float): ...: pass ...: In [2]: class s(object): ...: def __str__(self):

Test %hist -r XXX - This test is not recording the output correctly. For some reason, in testing mode the raw history isn't getting populate

Test that variables defined interactively are picked up. In [5]: zz=1 In [6]: zz Out[6]: 1

Toggle doctest mode on and off. This mode is intended to make IPython behave as much as possible like a plain Python shell, from the

The ipdoctest machinery must handle multiline examples gracefully. In [2]: for i in range(4): ...: print(i) ...: 0

Multiline examples that define functions and print output. In [7]: def f(x): ...: return x+1 ...: In [8]: f(1) Out[8]

Multiline examples with blank lines. In [12]: def h(x): ....: if x>1: ....: return x**2 ....: # To leave a b

doctest for %precision In [1]: f = get_ipython().display_formatter.formatters['text/plain'] In [2]: %precision 5 Out[2]: '%.5f'

Very nasty problem with references held by multiple runs of a script. See: https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/141 In [1]: _ip.clear_ma

DocTest reference holding issues when running scripts. In [32]: run show_refs.py c referrers: [<... 'dict'>]

Test that resetting doesn't cause errors in __del__ methods. In [2]: class A(object): ...: def __del__(self): ...: prin

Test running a trivial script. In [13]: run simplevars.py x is: 1

r"""Check that %run doesn't damage __builtins__. In [1]: import tempfile In [2]: bid1 = id(__builtins__) In [3]: fname = tempfile.mkste

r"""Test option parser in %run. In [1]: %run print_argv.py [] In [2]: %run print_argv.py print*.py ['print_argv.py'] In [3]: %r

r"""Test option parser in %run (Linux/OSX specific). You need double quote to escape glob in POSIX systems: In [1]: %run print_argv.py print

r"""Test option parser in %run (Windows specific). In Windows, you can't escape ``*` `by backslash: In [1]: %run print_argv.py print\\*.py