Spyder

Spyder

Screenshot of Spyder on Windows
Original author(s)	Pierre Raybaut
Developer(s)	Spyder project contributors
Initial release	18 October 2009; 16 years ago (2009-10-18)[1][2]
Written in	Python
Operating system	Cross-platform
Platform	Qt, Windows, macOS, Linux
Type	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 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

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

• Comparison of integrated development environments for Python

• Documentation
• on GitHub

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