=== Fernando Perez, ipython tutorial ===

- %colors lightbg will adapt colors for white background
- ? for help, contextual help
- help() interactive system
- lsmagic lists magic commands (magics start with % for disambiguation)
- shell commands are available... so it tab completion
- tab completion in python (attributes)
- history completion with up arrow
- use postfix ? and ?? for introspection on modules, functions; use * to search, e.g. numpy.cos*?
- hist and hist -n (no line numbers)
- logging: logstart (options: -o )
- make aliases (with arguments)

- try snakeoil (in ipython sandbox) for testing workflows

- run launches external script with arguments, and globals make it back into environment
- gui threads (e.g., plots) can run in parallel

- recent matplotlib versions have full independent latex capability