Nice Errors


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1 + foo

Inline Documentation


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open?

Tab Completion

Type o then tab and you should see a drop-down menu of choices.


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o

Run Shell Commands with !


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!ls

Remote Operations

IPython Notebook has facilities for running code both locally and remotely.

Local or Remote Images and Even Videos


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from IPython.core.display import Image 
Image(url='http://python.org/images/python-logo.gif')

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loadpy http://matplotlib.org/mpl_examples/pylab_examples/simple_plot.py