Run Django Shell using IPython Notebook

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Tested with iPython 2.0, Django 1.6

Install

Install Django Extension

pip install django-extensions

Install IPython

sudo apt-get install libzmq-dev
pip install pyzmq
pip install pygments
pip install jinja2 
pip install tornado
pip install ipython

Configuration

Edit settings.py, add django-extensions to INSTALLED_APPS

INSTALLED_APPS += (
    'django_extensions',
)

Run Django Shell with IPython Notebook

./manage.py shell_plus --notebook

Access IPython Notebook from network

Example, vagrant user want access ipython notebook running in vagrant vm, from their host. Edit default profile used by ipython notebook, then add ipython_notebook_config.py.

If you run django as user vagrant, probably your full path to ipython notebook configuration is /home/vagrant/.ipython/profile_default/ipython_notebook_config.py

ipython_notebook_config.py

c = get_config()

c.IPKernelApp.pylab = 'inline'
c.NotebookApp.ip = '*'
c.NotebookApp.open_browser = False
c.NotebookApp.port = 9999

c.FileNotebookManager.notebook_dir = u'/vagrant/notebooks'
c.InteractiveShellApp.exec_lines = [
    'from django.conf import settings'
]