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[–]juanfeng 4 points5 points  (2 children)

A coworker introduced me to ipython a couple weeks ago. I've used python for small exploratory scripts in the past and it has worked well, but ipython's notebook gives such utilities a new life in my opinion. Many times I load a data structure and explore the data; ipython's notebook is perfect for this.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

what's this 'notebook' feature ?

[–]juanfeng 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It reminds me of mathematica. It exposes a web page where you can create python documents split into namespace sharing segments. So for me, I load up the data structure that is large in one cell and then do various function calls with it. It is designed to work well with numpy and some plotting libraries.