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IPython for non-Pythonistas

Catherine Devlin

Ohio LinuxFest 2013

http://spkrbar.com/talk/46/

What is IPython
Anything you can do, I can do better
Answers life's big questions
- Where am I?
- What have I done?
- What does it all mean?
Sharing your enlightenment

IPython

An interactive Python environment

IPython Notebook

A web-based IPython environment

(demo)

Who cares?

Pythonistas care

Awarded 2012 Free Software Award

Fernando Perez keynote SciIPy 2013

July 2013: 1.0.dev released!

I don't do Python!

Anything you can do...

...

Present

Select Slideshow in Cell Toolbar, then:

ipython3 nbconvert presentation.ipynb --to slides --post serve

Requires ipython 1.0

Blog

More examples in the Gallery

nbviewer

Every notebook is a JSON file with ".ipynb" extension



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!head presentation.ipynb









    



{
 "metadata": {
  "name": ""
 },
 "nbformat": 3,
 "nbformat_minor": 0,
 "worksheets": [
  {
   "cells": [
    {

nbviewer.ipython.org/url/.ipynb-url serves it publicly!
or nbviewer.ipython.org/gist-number
downloadable

Example: PyOhio video downloads

catherinedevlin.pythoneers.com/pyohio-videos.ipynb

nbviewer.ipython.org/url/catherinedevlin.pythoneers.com/pyohio-videos.ipynb

https://gist.github.com/catherinedevlin/5636516

http://nbviewer.ipython.org/5636516

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Share a link to a workbook

or a link to a bundle

... and your collaborators don't even need Python...

Write

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Installation

Present in all common Linux repositories
Pythonheads: pip install ipython tornado pyzmq (ideally from a virtualenv)
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Go learn

This presentation: http://spkrbar.com/talk/46/
Gallery
Videos
IPython In Depth
don't forget %quickref, %lsmagic
catherine.devlin@gmail.com for questions



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