IPython - Installation

IPython is included by default in Anaconda distribution of Python. It can be downloaded from Anacondas download page www.anaconda.com/download/ Binaries for all major OS (Windows, MacOS and Linux) and architecture (32 bit and 64 bit) are available on this link.

Installing IPython

To install IPython separately in standard Python installation, you can use pip command as shown below −

pip3 install ipython

Collecting ipython
  Downloading ipython-9.8.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (4.5 kB)
...
Installing collected packages: pure-eval, wcwidth, traitlets, pygments, parso, executing, decorator, asttokens, stack_data, prompt_toolkit, matplotlib-inline, jedi, ipython-pygments-lexers, ipython
Successfully installed asttokens-3.0.1 decorator-5.2.1 executing-2.2.1 ipython-9.8.0 ipython-pygments-lexers-1.1.1 jedi-0.19.2 matplotlib-inline-0.2.1 parso-0.8.5 prompt_toolkit-3.0.52 pure-eval-0.2.3 pygments-2.19.2 stack_data-0.6.3 traitlets-5.14.3 wcwidth-0.2.14

IPython internally uses following packages −

In general, all dependencies get installed automatically. Else, you can install them individually using pip.