IPython plugins

IPython has a plugin mechanism that allows users to create new and custom runtime components for IPython. Plugins are different from extensions:

• Extensions are used to load plugins.
• Plugins are a more advanced configuration system that gives you access to the running IPython instance.
• Plugins are traited and configurable.

At this point, the documentation of our plugin system is minimal. If you are interested in creating a new plugin, see the following files:

• IPython/extensions/parallelmagic.py
• IPython/extensions/autoreload.py

As well as our documentation on the configuration system and extensions.