concept magic command in category jupyter

This is an excerpt from Manning's book Machine Learning for Business: Using Amazon SageMaker and Jupyter. Login to get full access to this book.

The magic command: Is it really magic?

Actually, it is. When you see a command in a Jupyter notebook that starts with % or with %%, the command is known as a magic command. Magic commands provide additional features to the Jupyter notebook, such as the ability to display charts or run external scripts. You can read more about magic commands at https://ipython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/interactive/magics.html.