Python can be run in many ways and common methods include running python scripts using a terminal or using the python shell. With data analysis/science making the news these days, we have ipython based jupyter notebooks that are being used by beginners and experts alike.

Ipython provides a REPL (Read-Evaluate-Print-Loop) shell for interactive Python development. It enables us to visualize the charts and plots using GUI toolkits and provides a kernel for jupyter.