Spyder (software) explained

Spyder
Logo Alt:	Spyder IDE logo and wordmark
Author:	Pierre Raybaut
Developer:	Spyder project contributors
Released:	^[1] ^[2]
Programming Language:	Python
Operating System:	Cross-platform
Platform:	Qt, Windows, macOS, Linux
Genre:	Integrated development environment
License:	MIT

Spyder is an open-source cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) for scientific programming in the Python language. Spyder integrates with a number of prominent packages in the scientific Python stack, including NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib, pandas, IPython, SymPy and Cython, as well as other open-source software.^{[3] [4]} It is released under the MIT license.^[5]

Initially created and developed by Pierre Raybaut in 2009, since 2012 Spyder has been maintained and continuously improved by a team of scientific Python developers and the community.

Spyder is extensible with first-party and third-party plugins,^[6] includes support for interactive tools for data inspection and embeds Python-specific code quality assurance and introspection instruments, such as Pyflakes, Pylint^[7] and Rope. It is available cross-platform through Anaconda, on Windows, on macOS through MacPorts, and on major Linux distributions such as Arch Linux, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo Linux, openSUSE and Ubuntu.^{[8] [9]}

Spyder uses Qt for its GUI and is designed to use either of the PyQt or PySide Python bindings.^[10] QtPy, a thin abstraction layer developed by the Spyder project and later adopted by multiple other packages, provides the flexibility to use either backend.^[11]

Features

Features include:^[12]

• An editor with syntax highlighting, introspection, code completion
• Support for multiple IPython consoles
• The ability to explore and edit variables from a GUI
• A Help pane able to retrieve and render rich text documentation on functions, classes and methods automatically or on-demand
• A debugger linked to IPdb, for step-by-step execution
• Static code analysis, powered by Pylint
• A run-time Profiler, to benchmark code
• Project support, allowing work on multiple development efforts simultaneously
• A built-in file explorer, for interacting with the filesystem and managing projects
• A "Find in Files" feature, allowing full regular expression search over a specified scope
• An online help browser, allowing users to search and view Python and package documentation inside the IDE
• A history log, recording every user command entered in each console
• An internal console, allowing for introspection and control over Spyder's own operation

Plugins

Available plugins include:^[13]

• Spyder-Unittest, which integrates the popular unit testing frameworks Pytest, Unittest and Nose with Spyder
• Spyder-Notebook, allowing the viewing and editing of Jupyter Notebooks within the IDE
  • Download Spyder Notebook
  • Using conda: conda install spyder-notebook -c spyder-ide
  • Using pip: pip install spyder-notebook
• Spyder-Reports, enabling use of literate programming techniques in Python
• Spyder-Terminal, adding the ability to open, control and manage cross-platform system shells within Spyder
  • Download Spyder Terminal
  • Using conda: conda install spyder-terminal -c spyder-ide
  • Using pip: pip install spyder-terminal
• Spyder-Vim, containing commands and shortcuts emulating the Vim text editor
• Spyder-AutoPEP8, which can automatically conform code to the standard PEP 8 code style
• Spyder-Line-Profiler and Spyder-Memory-Profiler, extending the built-in profiling functionality to include testing an individual line, and measuring memory usage

See also

• Comparison of integrated development environments for Python

External links

• • Documentation

Notes and References

1. Web site: spyder-ide/spyder at v1.0.0 . . 3 April 2017.
2. Web site: (Python)(ANN) Spyder v1.0.0 released . 18 October 2009.
3. Web site: Migrating from MATLAB to Python . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141010221143/http://web.ics.purdue.edu:80/~smit1447/blog/?p=24 . 2014-10-10 . Greener Engineering . et.byu.edu . 9 February 2014.
4. Web site: Spyder review . review.techworld.com . 9 February 2014 . 3 December 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131203014000/http://review.techworld.com/applications/3238833/spyder-review/ . dead .
5. Web site: Spyder license. .
6. Web site: SpyderPlugins – spyderlib – Plugin development – Spyder is the Scientific PYthon Development EnviRonment . 9 February 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131024165518/http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/wiki/SpyderPlugins . 24 October 2013 .
7. Web site: Pylint extension – Spyder 2.2 documentation . packages.python.org . 9 February 2014 . 1 February 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140201022109/http://packages.python.org/spyder/pylint.html . dead .
8. Web site: Reviews for spyder . apps.ubuntu.com . 9 February 2014.
9. Web site: Seznámení s Python IDE Spyder . fedora.cz . 9 February 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130820121204/http://fedora.cz/seznameni-s-python-ide-spyder/ . 20 August 2013 .
10. Web site: Spyder runtime dependencies . 21 February 2015 . github.com .
11. Web site: QtPy: Abstraction layer for PySide/PyQt4/PyQt5 . 23 October 2015 . 28 December 2015 . github.com .
12. Web site: Spyder Documention – Features Overview . Spyder Project . 2018-07-30 . dead . 2019-01-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190123054617/http://docs.spyder-ide.org/overview.html .
13. Web site: Spyder Plugins List . Spyder Project . 2018-07-30 .