Magic Commands

The default IPython magic commands are available in the Jupyter Notebook.

Additionally we define the following ones:

%addpath path

Adds path to the list of paths to look for Python modules.

%holoviews

Replaces current cell with a set of useful imports to use HoloViews.

%install [-v] packagename

Installs (or updates if installed) packagename.

%info_versions -p package1 package2 package3

Display the versions of the packages in the list.

%list_packages

List names and versions of all installed packages.

%tensorflow_version [version]

Display available TensorFlow versions. If the optional version is given then it is activated.

%watermark

Prints date/time stamps and various system information. Options can be viewed by executing %watermark?

Other useful magic commands are (please see above for a full list):

%pip

Run the pip package manager within the current kernel.

%writefile [-a] filename

Write the content of the cell to a file. The file will be overwritten unless -a (append) is specified.