Silas Sewell - IPython http://www.silassewell.com/blog/tag/ipython Infrastructure Development Sat, 08 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.silassewell.com/ en hourly 1 IPython + Python: Single Bash Command http://www.silassewell.com/blog/2008/12/01/ipython-python-single-bash-command/ Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT silas http://www.silassewell.com/blog/2008/12/01/ipython-python-single-bash-command/ The following is a simple Bash function you can paste into your bashrc file to start Python/IPython depending on the context.

~/.bashrc

function python {
    IPYTHON="/usr/bin/ipython"
    PYTHON="/usr/bin/python"

    if [[ -n $1 ]]; then
        $PYTHON $@
    elif [[ -e $IPYTHON ]]; then
        $IPYTHON
    else
        $PYTHON
    fi
}
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