[IPython-dev] Announcing BrowserCast: a Notebook-based presentation tool

[David Wolever]

On 2013-05-22, at 6:25 PM, Thomas Kluyver <takowl at gmail.com> wrote:

> For now %install_ext can only handle a single Python module. For larger things, you can create a regular Python package that people install with pip: IPython extensions work from any importable location.

Oh? Because the API docs for IPython.core.extension[0] suggest:
> If filename is given, the file will be so named (inside the extension directory). Otherwise, the name from the URL will be used. The file must have a .py or .zip extension; otherwise, a ValueError will be raised.

[0]: http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/dev/api/generated/IPython.core.extensions.html