Connecting to a remote IPython instance

Question

I would like to run an IPython instance on one machine and connect to it (over LAN) from a different process (to run some python commands). I understand that it is possible

Answer 1

Update to minrk's answer after the split to jupyter. With jupyter_client (4.1.1) the simplest code is rather something like:

import jupyter_client

cf=jupyter_client.find_connection_file('6759')
km=jupyter_client.BlockingKernelClient(connection_file=cf)
km.load_connection_file()

km.execute('a=5')

Note that:

• jupyter_client.BlockingKernelClient is also aliased with jupyter_client.client.BlockingKernelClient.
• the shell (km.shell_channel) does not have the method execute() & get_msg() anymore.

Currently it is quite difficult to find an updated documentation; nothing yet on http://jupyter-client.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ for BlockingKernelClient. Some code in https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter_kernel_test. Any link welcome.