... LGPL¹

IPython is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. Its full text is included in the file GNU-LGPL or can be obtained directly from the Free Software Foundation at: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html.

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... install²

If you are reading these instructions in HTML format, please note that the option is -home, with two dashes. The automatic HTML conversion program seems to eat up one of the dashes, unfortunately (it's ok in the PDF version).

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... pdb³

Thanks to Christian Hart for the suggestions leading to this feature and the profiler support.

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... Windows⁴

If anyone comes up with a clean solution which works consistently and does not negatively impact other platforms at all, I'll gladly accept a patch.

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... prompt⁵

Based on an idea by Holger Krekel.

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... etc⁶

This functionality was inspired by IDL's combination of the stop keyword and the .continue executive command, which I have found very useful in the past, and by a posting on comp.lang.python by cmkl <cmkleffner@gmx.de> on Dec. 06/01 concerning similar uses of pyrepl.

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... exception⁷

Many thanks to Christopher Hart for the request which prompted adding this feature to IPython.

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