Jupyter Features

Having familiarized ourselves with the interface of two platforms for running Notebooks (Jupyter Notebook and JupyterLab), we are ready to start writing and running some more interesting examples.

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For the remainder of this book, you are welcome to use either the Jupyter Notebook platform or JupyterLab to follow along with the exercises and activities. The experience is similar, and you will be able to follow along seamlessly either way. Most of the screenshots for the remainder of this book have been taken from JupyterLab.

Jupyter has many appealing core features that make for efficient Python programming. These include an assortment of things, such as tab completion and viewing docstrings—both of which are very handy when writing code in Jupyter. We will explore these and more in the following exercise.

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The official IPython documentation can be found here: https://ipython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/. It provides details of the features...