Marc-Etienne M.Lévei has an IDA shell in IPython! (I wish more security tool  projects would integrate with IPython.)

IPyIDA is a python-only solution to use a IPython console in the context of IDA Pro. It spawns an IPython kernel that you can connect to with ipython console –existing in your shell or by opening a QT Console window in IDA Pro with <Shift-.>. You can then benefit from IPython’s autocompletion, online help, monospaced font input field, graphs, and so on.
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https://github.com/eset/ipyida