Spyder - The Scientific PYthon Development EnviRonment

Copyright © 2009-2013 Pierre Raybaut.

Copyright © 2013-2015 The Spyder Development Team.

Licensed under the terms of the MIT License (see LICENSE for details)

Overview

Spyder is a Python development environment with tons of features:

• Editor

  Multi-language editor with function/class browser, code analysis features (pyflakes and pylint are currently supported), code completion, horizontal and vertical splitting, and goto definition.

• Interactive console

  Python or IPython consoles with workspace and debugging support to instantly evaluate the code written in the Editor. It also comes with Matplotlib figures integration.

• Documentation viewer

  Show documentation for any class or function call made either in the Editor or a Console.

• Variable explorer

  Explore variables created during the execution of a file. Editing them is also possible with several GUI based editors, like a dictionary and Numpy array ones.

• Find in files feature

  Supporting regular expressions and mercurial repositories

• File/directories explorer

• History log

Spyder may also be used as a PyQt4/PySide extension library (module spyderlib). For example, the Python interactive shell widget used in Spyder may be embedded in your own PyQt4/PySide application.

Running from source

The fastest way to run Spyder is to get the source code, install PyQt or PySide, and run:

python bootstrap.py

You may want to do this for fixing bugs in Spyder, adding new features, learning how Spyder works or just getting a taste of it.

Installation

This section explains how to install the latest stable release of Spyder. If you prefer testing the development version, please use the bootstrap script (see next section).

The easiest way to install Spyder is:

• On Windows:

  • Using one of our executable installers, which can be found here.
  • Or using one of these scientific Python distributions:
    1. Python(x,y)
    2. WinPython
    3. Anaconda

• On Mac OSX:

  • Using our DMG installer, which can be found here.
  • Using the Anaconda Distribution.
  • Through MacPorts.

• On GNU/Linux

  • Through your distribution package manager (i.e. apt-get, yum, etc).
  • Using the Anaconda Distribution.
  • Installing from source (see below).

• Cross-platform way from source

You can install Spyder from its zip source package named spyder-x.y.z.zip here. Then you need to use standard Python setup.py script:

python setup.py install

Note that setup.py is not able to uninstall previous versions of Python packages: it simply copies files on top of an existing installation. So the better way is to use pip package manager:

pip install .

Note the . at the end of command. pip can also install Spyder from the Python package index and upgrade an existing installation

pip install --upgrade spyder

For more details on supported platforms, please go to http://pythonhosted.org/spyder/installation.html.

Dependencies

Imnportant note: Most if not all the dependencies listed below come with Python(x,y), WinPython and Anaconda, so you don't need to install them separately when installing one of these scientific Python distributions.

Build dependencies

When installing Spyder from its source package (using the command python setup.py install), the only requirements is to have a Python version greater than 2.6.

Runtime dependencies

• Python 2.6+

• PyQt4 4.6+ or PySide 1.2.0+ (PyQt4 is recommended)

Recommended modules

• Rope v0.9.2+ (editor code completion, calltips and go-to-definition)

• Pyflakes v0.5.0+ (real-time code analysis)

• Sphinx v0.6+ (object inspector's rich text mode)

• Numpy (N-dimensional arrays)

• Scipy (signal/image processing)

• Matplotlib (2D/3D plotting)

• IPython 1.0+ (enhanced Python interpreter)

  In Ubuntu you need to install ipython-qtconsole, on Fedora ipython-gui and on Gentoo ipython with the qt4 USE flag.

Optional modules

• Pygments (syntax highlighting for several file types).

• Pylint (static code analysis).

• Pep8 (style analysis).

More information

• For code development please go to

  https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder

• For bug reports and feature requests

  https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/issues

• For discussions and troubleshooting:

  http://groups.google.com/group/spyderlib