The IPython API — IPython 4.0.0 documentation

# The IPython API

Release: | 4.0.0
Date: | August 13, 2016

`IPython` | IPython: tools for interactive and parallel computing in Python.
`IPython.core.alias` | System command aliases.
`IPython.core.application` | An application for IPython.
`IPython.core.autocall` | Autocall capabilities for IPython.core.
`IPython.core.builtin_trap` | A context manager for managing things injected into `__builtin__`.
`IPython.core.compilerop` | Compiler tools with improved interactive support.
`IPython.core.completer` | Word completion for IPython.
`IPython.core.completerlib` | Implementations for various useful completers.
`IPython.core.crashhandler` | sys.excepthook for IPython itself, leaves a detailed report on disk.
`IPython.core.debugger` | Pdb debugger class.
`IPython.core.error` | Global exception classes for IPython.core.
`IPython.core.events` | Infrastructure for registering and firing callbacks on application events.
`IPython.core.excolors` | Color schemes for exception handling code in IPython.
`IPython.core.extensions` | A class for managing IPython extensions.
`IPython.core.formatters` | Display formatters.
`IPython.core.getipython` | Simple function to call to get the current InteractiveShell instance
`IPython.core.history` | History related magics and functionality
`IPython.core.historyapp` | An application for managing IPython history.
`IPython.core.hooks` | Hooks for IPython.
`IPython.core.inputsplitter` | Input handling and transformation machinery.
`IPython.core.inputtransformer` | Input transformer classes to support IPython special syntax.
`IPython.core.interactiveshell` | Main IPython class.
`IPython.core.logger` | Logger class for IPython’s logging facilities.
`IPython.core.macro` | Support for interactive macros in IPython
`IPython.core.magic` | Magic functions for InteractiveShell.
`IPython.core.magic_arguments` | A decorator-based method of constructing IPython magics with `argparse` option handling.
`IPython.core.oinspect` | Tools for inspecting Python objects.
`IPython.core.page` | Paging capabilities for IPython.core
`IPython.core.payload` | Payload system for IPython.
`IPython.core.payloadpage` | A payload based version of page.
`IPython.core.prefilter` | Prefiltering components.
`IPython.core.profileapp` | An application for managing IPython profiles.
`IPython.core.profiledir` | An object for managing IPython profile directories.
`IPython.core.prompts` | Classes for handling input/output prompts.
`IPython.core.pylabtools` | Pylab (matplotlib) support utilities.
`IPython.core.shellapp` | A mixin for `Application` classes that launch InteractiveShell instances, load extensions, etc.
`IPython.core.splitinput` | Simple utility for splitting user input.
`IPython.core.ultratb` | Verbose and colourful traceback formatting.
`IPython.core.usage` | Usage information for the main IPython applications.
`IPython.display` | Public API for display tools in IPython.
`IPython.lib.backgroundjobs` | Manage background (threaded) jobs conveniently from an interactive shell.
`IPython.lib.clipboard` | Utilities for accessing the platform’s clipboard.
`IPython.lib.deepreload` | Provides a reload() function that acts recursively.
`IPython.lib.demo` | Module for interactive demos using IPython.
`IPython.lib.editorhooks` | ‘editor’ hooks for common editors that work well with ipython
`IPython.lib.guisupport` | Support for creating GUI apps and starting event loops.
`IPython.lib.inputhook` | Inputhook management for GUI event loop integration.
`IPython.lib.latextools` | Tools for handling LaTeX.
`IPython.lib.lexers` | Defines a variety of Pygments lexers for highlighting IPython code.
`IPython.lib.pretty` | Python advanced pretty printer.
`IPython.lib.security` | Password generation for the IPython notebook.
`IPython.paths` | Find files and directories which IPython uses.
`IPython.terminal.embed` | An embedded IPython shell.
`IPython.terminal.interactiveshell` | Subclass of InteractiveShell for terminal based frontends.
`IPython.terminal.ipapp` | The `Application` object for the command line ipython program.
`IPython.testing` | Testing support (tools to test IPython itself).
`IPython.testing.decorators` | Decorators for labeling test objects.
`IPython.testing.globalipapp` | Global IPython app to support test running.
`IPython.testing.iptest` | IPython Test Suite Runner.
`IPython.testing.iptestcontroller` | IPython Test Process Controller
`IPython.testing.ipunittest` | Experimental code for cleaner support of IPython syntax with unittest.
`IPython.testing.skipdoctest` | Decorators marks that a doctest should be skipped, for both python 2 and 3.
`IPython.testing.tools` | Generic testing tools.
`IPython.utils.PyColorize` | Class and program to colorize python source code for ANSI terminals.
`IPython.utils.capture` | IO capturing utilities.
`IPython.utils.coloransi` | Tools for coloring text in ANSI terminals.
`IPython.utils.contexts` | Context managers for temporarily updating dictionaries.
`IPython.utils.data` | Utilities for working with data structures like lists, dicts and tuples.
`IPython.utils.decorators` | Decorators that don’t go anywhere else.
`IPython.utils.dir2` | A fancy version of Python’s builtin `dir()` function.
`IPython.utils.encoding` | Utilities for dealing with text encodings
`IPython.utils.frame` | Utilities for working with stack frames.
`IPython.utils.generics` | Generic functions for extending IPython.
`IPython.utils.importstring` | A simple utility to import something by its string name.
`IPython.utils.io` | IO related utilities.
`IPython.utils.ipstruct` | A dict subclass that supports attribute style access.
`IPython.utils.module_paths` | Utility functions for finding modules
`IPython.utils.openpy` | Tools to open .py files as Unicode, using the encoding specified within the file, as per PEP 263.
`IPython.utils.path` | Utilities for path handling.
`IPython.utils.process` | Utilities for working with external processes.
`IPython.utils.rlineimpl` | Imports and provides the ‘correct’ version of readline for the platform.
`IPython.utils.sentinel` | Sentinel class for constants with useful reprs
`IPython.utils.shimmodule` | A shim module for deprecated imports
`IPython.utils.signatures` | Function signature objects for callables.
`IPython.utils.strdispatch` | String dispatch class to match regexps and dispatch commands.
`IPython.utils.sysinfo` | Utilities for getting information about IPython and the system it’s running in.
`IPython.utils.syspathcontext` | Context managers for adding things to sys.path temporarily.
`IPython.utils.tempdir` | TemporaryDirectory class, copied from Python 3.2.
`IPython.utils.terminal` | Utilities for working with terminals.
`IPython.utils.text` | Utilities for working with strings and text.
`IPython.utils.timing` | Utilities for timing code execution.
`IPython.utils.tokenutil` | Token-related utilities
`IPython.utils.tz` | Timezone utilities
`IPython.utils.ulinecache` | Wrapper around linecache which decodes files to unicode according to PEP 263.
`IPython.utils.version` | Utilities for version comparison
`IPython.utils.warn` | Utilities for warnings.
`IPython.utils.wildcard` | Support for wildcard pattern matching in object inspection.