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Python for Data Scientists - IPython

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Introduction Having learned some basic packages of Python, you probably started to wonder that working through the python console is not very productive. In R we have RStudio, of which we've already talked in first  articles . Good folks of Python community have developed an IPython - an interactive Python console and web environment. Installation As usual we are using python pip package manager to install the package: pip install ipython Usage Once the package is installed, you can launch the console version by simply typing it's name in the console: ipython Once the application is started, one can simply type python commands and observe the results. Though it doesn't look that far different from the ordinary python console, it provides auto-quoting, code completion, search of previously executed commands, output caching and many more. As I said previously, there are two modes of running the IPython - console and web. To launch the web interface, one