Jupyter is an offshoot of the IPython project, which aims to create a better interactive mode for Python. While Jupyter incorporates IPython, it's still available as a standalone program.

Because of the client/server architecture, it is very simple to share notebooks with other users. You can — in theory — use Jupyter for anything you could use Python for.

Jupyter Notebook is not a full-blown development environment for Python. Many of the features you would expect to find in an IDE—e.g., interactive debugging, code completion, and module ...