Last Updated on September 22, 2023
Spyder (previously known as Pydee) is an open-source Python development environment providing MATLAB-like features in a simple and light-weighted software.
Spyder is part of spyderlib, a Python module based on PyQt, pyflakes, rope and sphinx providing powerful PyQt4 widgets like source code editors, Python console (easy to embed in your own application: see this example) or GUI-based dictionary, lists/tuples and NumPy array editors.
This project is part of a larger effort to promote and facilitate the use of Python for scientific and engineering software development. The popular Python distributions Python(x,y) and WinPython also contribute to this plan.
Features include:
- Syntax coloring for Python, C/C++ and Fortran files.
- Powerful dynamic code introspection features (powered by rope):
- Code completion and calltips.
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- Go to an object definition with a mouse click.
- Class and function browser.
- Occurrence highlighting.
- To-do lists (TODO, FIXME, XXX).
- Get errors and warnings on the fly (provided by pyflakes).
- Breakpoints and conditional breakpoints to use with the python debugger (pdb).
- To easily interact with your code as you progress, Spyder lets you.
- Open as many Python and Ipython consoles as you want.
- Run a whole script or any portion of it from the Editor.
- Have code completion and automatic link to documentation through the Object Inspector.
- Execute all consoles in a separate process so they don’t block the application.
- With the Variable Explorer you can browse and analyze all the results your code is producing, and also.
- Edit variables with Spyder’s Array Editor, which has support for a lot of data types (numbers, strings, lists, arrays, dictionaries).
- Have multiple Array Editors open at once, thus allowing to compare variable contents.
- Import/Export data from/to a lot of file types (text files, numpy files, Matlab files).
- Generate 2D plots of list and arrays.
- View local variables while you’re debugging.
- Quick access to documentation is a must for every programmer, either to explore new libraries or to remember how to use a piece of code. Spyder gives you the docs in three different formats:
- Rich text (powered by Sphinx).
- Plain text, to use when rich text is not working.
- Source code, to look at the internal implementation.
- History log.
- Array editor.
- Project explorer.
- Pylint integration.
Website: github.com/spyder-ide/spyder
Support:
Developer: Pierre Raybaut – Developed and maintained by the Spyder Development Team
License: MIT License
Spyder is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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