Copyright © 2009-2013 Pierre Raybaut.
Copyright © 2013-2015 The Spyder Development Team.
Licensed under the terms of the MIT License (see LICENSE for details)
Spyder is a Python development environment with a lot of features:
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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.
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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.
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Documentation viewer
Show documentation for any class or function call made either in the Editor or a Console.
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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.
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Find in files
Supporting regular expressions and mercurial repositories
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File explorer
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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.
You can read the Spyder documentation at:
http://pythonhosted.org/spyder/
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.
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:
- Using one of our executable installers, which can be found here.
- Or using one of these scientific Python distributions:
- Using our DMG installer, which can be found here.
- Using the Anaconda Distribution.
- Through MacPorts.
- Through your distribution package manager (i.e.
apt-get,yum, etc). - Using the Anaconda Distribution.
- Installing from source (see below).
You can install Spyder from its zip source package named spyder-x.y.z.zip,
found here. Then you need to
use the 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
best way to install from source is to use the pip package manager:
pip install .
Note the dot (.) at the end of this 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 refer to our installation instructions.
Important 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.
When installing Spyder from its source package, the only requirement is to have a Python version greater than 2.6 (Python 3.2 is not supported anymore).
- Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.3 or 3.4
- PyQt4 4.6+, PySide 1.2.0+ or PyQt5 5.2+ (PyQt4 is recommended)
- IPython 3.0- or qtconsole 4.0+ (enhanced Python interpreter)
- Rope v0.9.4+ and/or Jedi 0.8 + (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)
- Matplotlib v1.0+ (2D/3D plotting)
- Pandas v0.13.1+ (DataFrame and Series support)
- Numpy (N-dimensional arrays)
- Scipy (signal/image processing)
Note: To get IPython in Ubuntu you need to install ipython-qtconsole,
on Fedora ipython-gui and on Gentoo ipython with the qt4 USE flag.
- Pygments v1.6+ (syntax highlighting for all file types it supports).
- Pylint v0.25+ (static code analysis).
- Pep8 v0.6+ (style analysis).
- Psutil v0.3+ (CPU and memory usage on the status bar)
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For code development please go to:
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For bug reports and feature requests:
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For discussions and troubleshooting: