The variable explorer is much better than the one PyCharm has, for example.
Of course, Pycharm has many other tools and a much better interface (Spyders scaling is grgrgrgrgr).
But for scientific data work? Spyder is great!
Spyder – a free and open source scientific environment written in Python
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Re: Spyder – a free and open source scientific environment written in Python
#12I like spyder a lot for the variable explorer, which makes it feel more like Matlab. However the constant bothering about installing Kite got annoying. Unfortunately there isn't a way to use Kite and have it not constantly annoy you about upgrading to the enterprise edition. If Kite had a no ads plan for like ~ $10 a year it would make a lot more sense to integrate it in spyder.
Re: Spyder – a free and open source scientific environment written in Python
#13Can I get the following behavior from Spyder (last time I tried I couldn't find a way) - for some keyboard shortcut like Cmd/Ctrl + Enter:
- the shortcut sends the selected code to the terminal (this is possible)
- if I hit the shortcut when nothing is selected, the line where the cursor currently is gets sent to the terminal and the cursor moves to the next line of code
- if the cursor is at the beginning of a block of code like an if-statement or a loop, the whole statement is sent to the terminal and the cursor moves to after the statement
RStudio has this behaviour by default, I find it very convenient and I haven't been able to replicate it in other environments.
Re: Spyder – a free and open source scientific environment written in Python
#14I'm sorry, I'm sure Spyder has lots of merits (and I'm sure the devs are wonderful people), but I've spent so much time fixing fellow academics' Python problems that were in the end rooted in "I don't know what I'm doing, so I installed this Spyder thing and it has now taken over every aspect of Python on my computer" that I feel a visceral negative reaction to the name in my body. Not Spyder's fault, of course, but nonetheless.
Re: Spyder – a free and open source scientific environment written in Python
#15I tried to use spyder on some projects, but the constant crashing without restoration of my work got old very quickly.
Re: Spyder – a free and open source scientific environment written in Python
#16If you use this, you are a junior dev - embarrassing
Guess I’m junior then. I learned how to code via scientific coding so I love Spyder for its simplicity. When I want to work deeply on a difficult problem and want to quickly flesh out ideas it’s my go to because it sandboxes really well and I can iterate much faster in it.
I use more advanced IDE when integrating the code I developed in Spyder into a larger code base. I’m sure many will criticize my workflow but I’ve tried doing other ways and this works best for me and I write less buggy code this way.
Re: Spyder – a free and open source scientific environment written in Python
#17Please use carefully if you have aracnopyhopia.
The naming seems pretty poor for me given that I'd assume that spyder would be a webcrawler written in python.
Re: Spyder – a free and open source scientific environment written in Python
#18I understand why Spyder. But they could also have called it spIDEr
pIDE PYper (just thought of that!)
Re: Spyder – a free and open source scientific environment written in Python
#19Can I get the following behavior from Spyder (last time I tried I couldn't find a way) - for some keyboard shortcut like Cmd/Ctrl + Enter: - the shortcut sends the selected code to the terminal (this is possible) - if I hit the shortcut when nothing is selected, the line where the cursor currently is gets sent to the terminal and the cursor moves to the next line of code - if the cursor is at the beginning of a block…
That sort of workflow sounds a lot like what you would get from a notebook like Jupyter, albeit you would have explicit block of code ("cells") to be executed together.
It looks like Spyder now features Jupyter Notebook integration as well: https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-notebook
Re: Spyder – a free and open source scientific environment written in Python
#20If you use this, you are a junior dev - embarrassing
What wisdom! Thank you senior dev person