The big picture view of the IPython architecture. Based on this document: http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/dev/development/how_ipython_works.html A lightning talk for SFPython November 2014

1. IPython from 30,000 feet
Thomas Kluyver
http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/dev/development/how_ipython_works.html
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2. REPLs
while True:
code = input(">>> ")
exec(code)

3. Kernels

4. Messages
{
"header": {
"msg_type": "execute_request",
…}
"content": {
"code": "print('Hello, world')",
…}
…}

5. Kernels for other languages

6. Notebooks