ipython/ipython
Official repository for IPython itself. Other repos in the IPython organization contain things like the website, documentation builds, etc. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
67/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 5959
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
16774 stars · 4505 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
IPython is a powerful interactive Python shell and Jupyter kernel offering introspection, tab completion, persistent history, magic commands, and rich media display. It serves as the foundation for interactive computing in Python and the kernel powering Jupyter notebooks.
Use cases
- interactive python shell with tab completion
- kernel for jupyter notebooks
- explore data interactively in the terminal
- inspect python objects and their docs
- embed an interactive python console in my app
- run shell commands from a python repl
- debug and profile code interactively
When to choose
- you want a far richer REPL than the default python shell
- you need the Python kernel for Jupyter notebooks
- you do exploratory data science or interactive experimentation
- you want to embed an interactive console in a Python application
When to avoid
- you only need to run scripts non-interactively
- you want notebook frontends themselves - use Jupyter instead
- you need a shell for other languages - IPython is Python-focused
Facets
library · maturity stable
interpreter cli developer-tools sdk developer-tools data-science programming-languages python cross-platform cli repl interactive-computing jupyter-kernel tab-completion magic-commands introspection command-line
3 sources
- readme: https://github.com/ipython/ipython · fetched 2026-08-28 · c67f82d0f5dd
- homepage: https://ipython.readthedocs.org · fetched 2026-08-29 · 5c6d6eb828ea
- registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/ipython/json · fetched 2026-08-29 · ce18c233c049
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| ipython/ipython | main | 67 |
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