I use it primarily as a prototyping and blogging platform. With a little tweaking, Pelican can convert IPython to static HTML. It makes a really great way to create and share blog content, especially because I am basically looking at the final product while writing. Hosting with Github is also a breeze, and gives me automatic version control for all content. Anyone interested can check it out here [1]
It is also has a built-in presentation display - can be very handy for sharing your analysis/code with other folks.
IPython is definitely not an IDE for me - I usually prototype my code as a gist, then either import or copy depending on what type of code I am writing. Working purely in IPython tends to lead me toward spaghetti code, but being more disciplined would probably make it work well.
It is also has a built-in presentation display - can be very handy for sharing your analysis/code with other folks.
IPython is definitely not an IDE for me - I usually prototype my code as a gist, then either import or copy depending on what type of code I am writing. Working purely in IPython tends to lead me toward spaghetti code, but being more disciplined would probably make it work well.
[1] http://kastnerkyle.github.io/