Spyder (software)

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Spyder
Original author(s) Pierre Raybaut
Developer(s) Spyder project contributors
Initial release18 October 2009;15 years ago (2009-10-18) [1] [2]
Stable release
6.0.2 [3]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 31 October 2024;51 days ago (31 October 2024)
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Written in Python
Operating system Cross-platform
Platform Qt, Windows, macOS, Linux
Type Integrated development environment
License MIT
Website www.spyder-ide.org   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Spyder is an open-source cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) for scientific programming in the Python language. Spyder integrates with a number of prominent packages in the scientific Python stack, as well as other open-source software. [4] [5] Created by Pierre Raybaut [6] and released in 2009 [1] [2] under the MIT license, [7] since 2012 Spyder has been maintained and continuously improved by Python developers and the community.[ citation needed ]

Contents

Spyder is extensible with first-party and third-party plugins, [8] and includes support for interactive tools for data inspection and embeds Python-specific code quality assurance and introspection instruments, such as Pyflakes, Pylint [9] and Rope. [10] [11] Spyder uses Qt for its GUI and is designed to use either of the PyQt or PySide Python bindings. [12] QtPy, a thin abstraction layer developed by the Spyder project and later adopted by multiple other packages, provides the flexibility to use either backend. [13]

History

Initially created and developed by Pierre Raybaut, [6] it was published on October 18, 2009 [1] [2] under the MIT license. [7]

Since 2012 Spyder has been maintained and continuously improved by a team of scientific Python developers and the community.[ citation needed ] As of 2024, the Spyder website lists the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and NumFOCUS as their two major sponsors, also noting donations received from users through Open Collective. [14] Carlos Cordoba was listed as the lead maintainer of the software, with Daniel Althiz as co-maintainer. [6]

Software

It is an open-source cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) for scientific programming in the Python language. Spyder integrates with a number of prominent packages in the scientific Python stack, including NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib, pandas, IPython, SymPy and Cython, as well as other open-source software. [4] [5]

Spyder is extensible with first-party and third-party plugins, [8] includes support for interactive tools for data inspection and embeds Python-specific code quality assurance and introspection instruments, such as Pyflakes, Pylint [9] and Rope. It is available cross-platform through Anaconda, on Windows, on macOS through MacPorts, and on major Linux distributions such as Arch Linux, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo Linux, openSUSE and Ubuntu. [10] [11]

Spyder uses Qt for its GUI and is designed to use either of the PyQt or PySide Python bindings. [12] QtPy, a thin abstraction layer developed by the Spyder project and later adopted by multiple other packages, provides the flexibility to use either backend. [13]

Features

Features include: [15]

Plugins

Available plugins include: [16]

See also

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