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Argh! Who thought Black should be automatically applied to lines in the IPython CLI?
The makes it less useful for education purposes, less useful for interactive math, and annoying when it rewrites your input across multiple lines.
The makes it less useful for education purposes, less useful for interactive math, and annoying when it rewrites your input across multiple lines.
In a #Python course, if you want to demonstrate that print('hello') and print("hello") are the same, then too bad. The CLI rewrites both to use double quotes and the students can't see what you were demonstrating.
When doing math, you improve readability by grouping your terms as shown in PEP 8:
3*x**2 - 5*x + 10
However, the new #Ipython CLI immediately expands it to:
3 * x ** 2 - 5 * x + 10
3*x**2 - 5*x + 10
However, the new #Ipython CLI immediately expands it to:
3 * x ** 2 - 5 * x + 10
Since everyone is doing the Advent of Code, I want to do something else - the #IPython Advent Calendar.
IPython is great to interactively solve problems like this, and I want to show you some tips to make the most of it.
So 25 tips for 25 days 👇
IPython is great to interactively solve problems like this, and I want to show you some tips to make the most of it.
So 25 tips for 25 days 👇
1. You can display useful information for any function, module, or variable by adding "?" at the end (or at the beginning). No need to google for the documentation. 
2. If you want to see the whole source code of a function (or a class/module), add two question marks instead of one:
your_function??
your_function??
