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IPython Cheatsheet: Commands, Magics, and Hidden Features

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Introduction

IPython began in 2001 as an enhanced interactive Python shell with tab completion, introspection, and inline help. Over time, it grew into the project that created the famous web-based notebook interface. In 2014-2015, that notebook component was split into Jupyter, which expanded support to many languages through kernels. Today, IPython continues as the Python kernel for Jupyter and as a standalone REPL.

This cheatsheet collects useful IPython commands and features, based on Sebastian Witowski’s talk IPython can do that?!, with a few additions of my own.

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I am a machine learning engineer with over four years of experience in software development.

I currently work at EPR Labs, where I develop software and data pipelines for training, evaluating, and deploying predictive and generative ML models in Python.

Previously, as part of the PRODIS project, I developed the first phoneme-level GPT model for Polish, along with CI pipelines for survey processing, GUI QA tools, a batch ASR wrapper, and a web interface for data collection.

Contact

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Feel free to reach out if you have any questions.

E-mail: mirai@ryouze.net
GitHub: github.com/ryouze