iPython in Julia

General Usage
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Is there anything similar to iPython in Julia (not iJulia I suppose).

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What functionality do you expect from an ipython equivalent? Julia repl already has some of the capabilities.

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IMO Julia REPL is more similar to Python REPL.

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What do you mean? iJulia uses the exact same backend as the iPython notebook.

Do you mean qtconsole? There is some discussion of it in the readme for IJulia here. I have not tried to install it, though I do like using qtconsole for data work.

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If you want to use the IJulia kernel on the command line you can use jupyter console:

$ jupyter console --kernel=julia-1.4
Starting kernel event loops.
Jupyter console 6.1.0

Julia: A fresh approach to technical computing.
In [1]: 1 + 1
Out[1]: 2

That said, I think that the Julia REPL is close to IPython, and is much more complete than the Python REPL.
It offers autocompletion, integrated help, …

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Thank you. It was exactly this what I wanted.

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Not working for me:

ufechner@tuxedi:~$ jupyter console --kernel=julia-1.4
Error executing Jupyter command 'console': [Errno 2] No such file or directory

This is on Ubuntu 18.04.

Any idea?

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You might need to install jupyter-console, e.g. pip install jupyter-console.
See Jupyter console 6.0 — Jupyter console 6.0.0dev documentation.

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Yes, sudo apt install jupyter-console worked!

Thank you! :smiley: