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| author | Benjamin Trigona-Harany <slackbuilds@jaxartes.net> | 2013-11-25 23:12:53 -0800 |
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| committer | Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org> | 2013-11-27 23:51:07 -0600 |
| commit | 49029ba129686029d7b44eff8aa0b417dc921ce6 (patch) | |
| tree | 3a6e238631afc3bab4a764992b1ccb2e1691314b /development/ipython/README | |
| parent | ad4cbbfe705c1b9a39835783fc2ecefd079b862f (diff) | |
development/ipython: Updated for version 1.1.0 (+ new maintainer)
Signed-off-by: Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org>
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| -rw-r--r-- | development/ipython/README | 19 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/development/ipython/README b/development/ipython/README index 182b1e5a2af00..0739d909e53f5 100644 --- a/development/ipython/README +++ b/development/ipython/README @@ -1,12 +1,9 @@ -IPython is a multiplatform, Free Software project (BSD licensed) that -offers: +IPython is a replacement shell for Python programming. It offers: -* An enhanced Python shell designed for efficient interactive work. It - includes many enhancements over the default Python shell, including the - ability for controlling interactively all major GUI toolkits in a non- - blocking manner. -* A library to build customized interactive environments using Python as - the basic language (but with the possibility of having extended or - alternate syntaxes). -* A system for interactive distributed and parallel computing (this is part - of IPython's new development). +* An enhanced Python shell for the terminal +* A Qt-based console +* A web-based notebook for coding +* An architecture for interactive parallel computing + +matplotlib, pyzmq and tornado are all strongly-recommended dependencies. +Without these, only IPython's default console will run. |