On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 7:16 AM, Wes Turner <wes.turner@gmail.com> wrote:
This works today but is inadvisable because it risks wasting bandwidth if the %run (!) instructions are frequently re-run unnecessarily:

$ ipython
>>> !pip install -U ipython
>>> exit()
$ ipython

does it work on Windows? My experience is almost always negative with Windows' aggressive file locking -- I'd be unsurprised if you couldn't update a package that is running (particularly if it is has loaded a dll, AKA compiled extension module)

-CHB


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