Async kernel

Async kernel is a Python Jupyter kernel that runs in an anyio event loop.

Documentation

Highlights

• Concurrent message handling
• Debugger client
• Configurable backend
  • Asyncio (default)
    • uvloop enabled by default¹
  • trio backend
• IPython shell provides:
  • code execution
  • magic
  • code completions
  • history

Installation

pip install async-kernel

Trio

To add a kernel spec for trio.

pip install trio
async-kernel -a async-trio

Origin

Async kernel started as a fork of IPyKernel. Thank you to the original contributors of IPyKernel that made Async kernel possible.

Footnotes

1. Uvloop is not a dependency of async-kernel but will be used if it has been installed. ↩