IPython

IPython vs. Jupyter

With release 4.0 of IPython started to focus on interactive Python while the following Python agnostic parts of then-IPython were moved to the Jupyter project:

Notebook format
message protocol
qtconsole
notebook web application
etc.

Rich Display

With rich display, it's possible to render a Python object in a specific format (Image, HTML, markdown etc.) in IPython.

IPython will render an object in the desired format if it exposes one of the following methods:

	REPL	Notebook	QT Console
`_repr_pretty_`	✓	✓	✓
`_repr_svg_`	✗	✓	✓
`_repr_png_`	✗	✓	✓
`_repr_jpeg_`	✗	✓	✓
`_repr_html_`	✗	✓	✗
`_repr_javascript_`	✗	✓	✗
`_repr_markdown_`	✗	✓	✗
`_repr_latex_`	✗	✓	✗
`_repr_mimebundle_`	✗	?	?

The _ipython_display_() method allows to take control of the display with the own side effects.

This concept extends the idea of __repr__()

See also the _repr_ methods of the pandas dataframe object.