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@@ -38,13 +38,12 @@ provides both a very quick way to visualize data from Python and
 publication-quality figures in many formats.  We are going to explore
 matplotlib in interactive mode covering most common cases.
 
-IPython and the pylab mode
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+IPython
+-------
 
 `IPython <http://ipython.org/>`_ is an enhanced interactive Python shell that
 has lots of interesting features including named inputs and outputs, access to
-shell commands, improved debugging and much more. When we start it with the
-command line argument -pylab (--pylab since IPython version 0.12), it allows
+shell commands, improved debugging and much more. It allows
 interactive matplotlib sessions that have Matlab/Mathematica-like functionality.
 
 pyplot