04 - Jupyter and magic commands

Jupyter has a system of so-called « magic » commands with a minimalist and extensible control language.

References

• Jupyter Notebook documentation
• The cell magics in IPython

There are two types of magic functions to distinguish:

• Line magics: These are commands preceded by a % character and whose arguments extend only to the end of the current line. For example, %matplotlib inline allows displaying figures directly within the notebook.
• Cell magics: These are commands preceded by the characters %% and will take into account the instructions of the entire cell.

Example :

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