Today I Learned

IPython or Jupyter Notebook Magics

Summary of the video lectures on IPython:

• % is line level magic, which only affects the code starting from the position of it, while %% is cell level magic;
• List all the magics: %lsmagic;
• Timing of a cell: %timeit , for example, %timeit np.cos(1.3);
• Write the content of the cell to a file by using %%writefile output.py;
• Bash commands can be used in the command mod, by simply using a !, for example, !ls -l (Tab to autocomplete);
• %run output.py can run the file;
• Run a background job using %%python --bg --out output.txt then followed by the python code;
• Plots inline can be made using %matplotlib inline;