Information on the ‘?’ system) to get information about any particular magic

Type %magic for more information, including a list of all available magicįunctions at any time and their docstrings. L = %sx ls (which in this particular case returns the result of ls as a python list). Line magics, if they return a value, can be assigned to a variable using the syntax home/fperez In : del cd # if you remove the cd variable, automagic works again In : cd ipython /home/fperez/ipython # and doesn't work as a function anymore File '', line 1 cd. In : cd ipython # %cd is called by automagic /home/fperez/ipython In : cd = 1 # now cd is just a variable In : cd.