ipython-notebook Getting started with ipython-notebook

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Installation or Setup

Detailed instructions on getting ipython-notebook set up or installed:

Please Note: iPython Notebook is now no longer supported as all of the functionality has been moved into to the Jupyter project.

Prerequisite

To install Jupyter or iPython Notebook you must have python installed at at least version 2.7.3+ or 3.3+ - python can be installed from the main python site, from your Linux/OS-X distribution or as one of the bundled packages such as Anaconda recommended.

Installing Jupyter Notebook

To install the Jupyter Notebook:

• In Anaconda: Ensure you are running a recent version of Anaconda for Python 3 and you already have Jupyter and it's Notebook installed just run with jupyter notebook
• Using pip Linux and OS-X users may need to prefix all the following commands with sudo :
• Update pip with: python -m pip install --upgrade pip
• Install Jupyter with: pip install --upgrade jupyter
• Run with: jupyter notebook to start the server and you should see the "home" interface in your browser:

For instructions on how to enable additional kernals see the Jupyter site.

Note: There is currently, 2016, a new, next generation, user interface for Jupyter under active development called Jupyter Lab which is worth watching:

Legacy Systems

On legacy systems iPython it may be possible to install iPython notebook to a python system with pip installed use the command:

pip install ipython[notebook]
 

Every time that you run ipython notebook you will receive a warning:

[TerminalIPythonApp] WARNING | Subcommand `ipython notebook` is deprecated and will be removed in future versions.
[TerminalIPythonApp] WARNING | You likely want to use `jupyter notebook` in the future
 

and find that you are running Jupyter.

Note on Importing Libraries

On some systems, notably OS-X or when running from a Virtual Environment, the notebook may not recognize some of the libraries installed on the underlying system, this is due to the system python and that being used to run the notebook being different installations. Adding the libraries can be done independently in the notebooks environment by the following command from within the iPython environment:

!pip install [desired library]  
 

Or with the following code:

import pip
pip.main(['install', 'libary-name'])  # '-U' can be added after install to update existing packages