Spyder - Documentation

Spyder is the Scientific PYthon Development EnviRonment:

• a powerful interactive development environment for the Python language with advanced editing, interactive testing, debugging and introspection features

• and a numerical computing environment thanks to the support of IPython (enhanced interactive Python interpreter) and popular Python libraries such as NumPy (linear algebra), SciPy (signal and image processing) or matplotlib (interactive 2D/3D plotting).

Spyder may also be used as a library providing powerful console-related widgets for your PyQt-based applications – for example, it may be used to integrate a debugging console directly in the layout of your graphical user interface.

Spyder websites:

• Downloads, bug reports and feature requests: https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder

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

Using the pip package manager:

• Installing: sudo pip install spyder

• Updating: sudo pip install -U spyder

Optional modules

• Matplotlib >=1.0 – for 2D and 3D plotting in the consoles.

• Pandas >=0.13.1 – for view and editing DataFrames and Series in the Variable Explorer.

• Numpy – for view and editing two or three dimensional arrays in the Variable Explorer.

• Sympy >=0.7.3 – for working with symbolic mathematics in the IPython console.

• Scipy – for importing Matlab workspace files in the Variable Explorer.