xonsh VS ipython

Compare xonsh vs ipython and see what are their differences.

ipython

Official repository for IPython itself. Other repos in the IPython organization contain things like the website, documentation builds, etc. (by ipython)
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xonsh ipython
112 34
7,899 16,113
4.8% 0.3%
8.7 9.6
9 days ago 9 days ago
Python Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

xonsh

Posts with mentions or reviews of xonsh. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-09.

ipython

Posts with mentions or reviews of ipython. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-02.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing xonsh and ipython you can also consider the following projects:

nushell - A new type of shell

CPython - The Python programming language

fish-shell - The user-friendly command line shell.

bpython - bpython - A fancy curses interface to the Python interactive interpreter

oh-my-bash - A delightful community-driven framework for managing your bash configuration, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.

PowerShell - PowerShell for every system!

zx - A tool for writing better scripts

oil - Oils is our upgrade path from bash to a better language and runtime. It's also for Python and JavaScript users who avoid shell!

vim-slime - A vim plugin to give you some slime. (Emacs)

zsh-vi-mode - 💻 A better and friendly vi(vim) mode plugin for ZSH.

elvish - Powerful scripting language & Versatile interactive shell

spacemacs - A community-driven Emacs distribution - The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs *and* Vim!