I use the Anaconda-packaged version of Spyder on a daily basis. Great product, although I can never seem to get the IDE updates to consistently work within that environment.
Nevertheless it is my favorite IDE for Python.
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
#42I use the Anaconda-packaged version of Spyder on a daily basis. Great product, although I can never seem to get the IDE updates to consistently work within that environment. Nevertheless it is my favorite IDE for Python.
You could consider using our new installers, if you're on Windows or macOS, to avoid that: https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/releases/tag/v4.2.1
Then you can connect them to your conda envs, as described here: http://docs.spyder-ide.org/current/faq.html#using-existing-e...
Re: Spyder – a free and open source scientific environment written in Python
#43I use the Anaconda-packaged version of Spyder on a daily basis. Great product, although I can never seem to get the IDE updates to consistently work within that environment. Nevertheless it is my favorite IDE for Python.
You could consider using our new installers, if you're on Windows or macOS, to avoid that: https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/releases/tag/v4.2.1 Then you can connect them to your conda envs, as described here: http://docs.spyder-ide.org/current/faq.html#using-existing-e...
Thanks!
Re: Spyder – a free and open source scientific environment written in Python
#44The 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!
Oh boy, I can't even get spyder to move between two of my monitors because it always complains about scaling and then I can't get the popup to consistently not show up
Would you prefer to hide it forever? We could add an option for that, but scaling could fail in some circumstances.
Re: Spyder – a free and open source scientific environment written in Python
#45I really like spyder for it's Matlab like IDE but I wish they handled virtual environments better. I also don't like that I have to install their kernel in the venv to use it.
Hey, thanks for the feedback! We plan to improve our support for virtual environments in the future. Also, it's really necessary to install spyder-kernels in every env to make the variable explorer and debugger work for it. However, that could be by us handling virtual envs and installing spyder-kernels on behalf of the users.
Re: Spyder – a free and open source scientific environment written in Python
#46Has anybody used Pycharm's Scientific project type for data analysis?
Hey, a PM of PyCharm here. Justin case someone will find it useful and relevant. Our team is currently working on a brand new IDE (based on PyCharm) for data scientists. A big part of what we're doing is convenient support for Jupyter notebooks within the IDE. This new IDE is currently under development but already provides the support for notebooks similar to how the native web Jupyter notebooks work – cells and out…
Interesting!
Curious as to whether you'd say the approach you are taking is closer to Jupyter's binary cell approach or RStudio's Notebook's text-based approach.
Thanks!
Re: Spyder – a free and open source scientific environment written in Python
#47I'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…
(Spyder maintainer here) I don't understand your comment. Spyder is like any other regular Python package, so it can't take over your computer. We have some customizations to run code, but that's to provide a better experience to users.
Re: Spyder – a free and open source scientific environment written in Python
#48I 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.
Not to be trite, but there is a github repo and the license is MIT. I'd guess it's possible to find the relevant nag code (possibly in its own github commit), strip it out, and recompile. Edit. maybe this is what you're talking about? https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/commit/6b602af50f632cf6...
but why is that even there? I guess that's just another reason to stay with emacs...
Re: Spyder – a free and open source scientific environment written in Python
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey, a PM of PyCharm here. Justin case someone will find it useful and relevant. Our team is currently working on a brand new IDE (based on PyCharm) for data scientists. A big part of what we're doing is convenient support for Jupyter notebooks within the IDE. This new IDE is currently under development but already provides the support for notebooks similar to how the native web Jupyter notebooks work – cells and out…
Interesting! Curious as to whether you'd say the approach you are taking is closer to Jupyter's binary cell approach or RStudio's Notebook's text-based approach. Thanks!
Our current approach to is very similar to the native Jupyter experience where notebook contains multiple separate cells. You can manipulate these cells with shortcuts or mouse. It looks very similar to Jupyter or JupyterLab.
At the same time, if you open a Python script, you'll be able to use cell delimiters (aka `#%%`).