ANN: Spyder v2.3 is released!

[Carlos Córdoba]

Hi all,

On the behalf of Spyder's development team (http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/people/list), I'm pleased to announce that Spyder 2.3 has been released and is available for Windows XP/Vista/7/8, GNU/Linux and MacOS X: https://bitbucket.org/spyder-ide/spyderlib/downloads

This release represents 14 months of development since version 2.2 and introduces major enhancements and new features:

   * Python 3 support (versions 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4 are supported).
   * Various Editor improvements:
     - Use the Tab key to do code completions
     - Highlight cells
     - First-class support for Enaml files
     - Improve how calltips are shown
   * Better looking Object Inspector
   * Several refinements to the user interface to make it easier and more intuitive
   * And many other changes: http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/wiki/ChangeLog

Spyder 2.2 has been a huge success (being downloaded more than 400,000 times) and we hope 2.3 will be as successful as it. For that we merged 30 pull requests from 11 authors, and added almost 1000 commits between these two releases.

Spyder is a free, open-source (MIT license) interactive development environment for the Python language with advanced editing, interactive testing, debugging and introspection features. Originally designed to provide MATLAB-like features (integrated help, interactive console, variable explorer with GUI-based editors for dictionaries, NumPy arrays, ...), it is strongly oriented towards scientific computing and software development. Thanks to the `spyderlib` library, Spyder also provides powerful ready-to-use widgets: embedded Python console (example: http://packages.python.org/guiqwt/_images/sift3.png), NumPy array editor (example: http://packages.python.org/guiqwt/_images/sift2.png), dictionary editor, source code editor, etc.

Description of key features with tasty screenshots can be found at:
http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/wiki/Features

Don't forget to follow Spyder updates/news:
  * on the project website: http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/
  * and on our official blog: http://spyder-ide.blogspot.com/

Last, but not least, we welcome any contribution that helps making Spyder an efficient scientific development/computing environment. Join us to help creating your favorite environment!
(http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/wiki/NoteForContributors)

Enjoy!
-Carlos

[Sylvain Corlay]

Hi Carlos,

Bravo! and thanks for your continued effort on Spyder. 

Sylvain

[Phyo Arkar]

Hello Carlos!
Congrats! 400k times download is very good.
Does that also involve Continnum.io downloads? I believe that also
need to be taken into account as Spyder is Main IDE of continnum!

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[Shaunak De]

Many congrats and thank you for the continued development effort.

[Indranil Sinharoy]

Hi Carlos,

This is really very nice. Thank you and to all people who contributed to Spyder. 

Will there be a .exe installer for Windows available soon? I use Spyder on top of EPD package distribution, which I have installed using the .exe. I could probably uninstall version 2.2 and install from source (.zip). However, if there is going to be a executable, I shall wait.

Thanks again,

Regards,

Indranil.

[Sylvain Corlay]

Hi Indranil,
The executables are available for download on bitbucket:
https://bitbucket.org/spyder-ide/spyderlib/downloads
Cheers,
Sylvain

[Chiara Maria Aruffo]

Hi all,

I tried to install this new version of Spyder 2.3 on my Mac OS X 10.9, but it runs only with Python 2.7.

I have already Python 3.4 installed and I using it through IDLE, how can I change the settings in Spyder to run it with Python 3.4?

I am new in the programming world, so I would ask you an extra-effort to guide me through it :)

thanks

Ch.

[Carlos Córdoba]

Hi,

How are you installing Spyder? I mean, what method are you using?


Cheers,
Carlos

El 30/07/14 a las #4, Chiara Maria Aruffo escribió:

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[Adrian Klaver]

On 07/30/2014 11:46 AM, Chiara Maria Aruffo wrote:
> Hi all,
> I tried to install this new version of Spyder 2.3 on my Mac OS X 10.9,
> but it runs only with Python 2.7.
> I have already Python 3.4 installed and I using it through IDLE, how can
> I change the settings in Spyder to run it with Python 3.4?

So to be clear, you have both Python 2.7 and Python 3.4 installed on
your machine?

When you run Spyder it is using 2.7 in the console and IPython console,
correct?

In addition to Carlos's question about how Spyder was installed, how did
you install the Python versions?

>
> I am new in the programming world, so I would ask you an extra-effort to
> guide me through it :)
> thanks
> Ch.
>
>

--
Adrian Klaver
adrian...@aklaver.com

[Indranil Sinharoy]

Hi Sylvian,

Thanks very much! I had actually downloaded it a couple of days back and the version just became super awesome. It was already very good. Now, with the fixed bugs, and with auto-completion working beautifully, I am loving it. I will always recommend Spyder to anyone.

Thanks,

Regards,

Indranil. 

[Chiara Maria Aruffo]

thanks Adrian and Carlos,

I had only Phyton 3.4 installed before installing Spider. 

I installed Spyder with the dmg downloaded from the spyder website (the latest version), then when I open the Spyder console (I guess is the IPhyton you are asking about) it has written on top Python 2.7 and it does not recognize commands for Python 3.4!

At the moment I disinstalled Spyder, waiting for news from you!

thanks a lot,

Ch.

> Hi,

How are you installing Spyder? I mean, what method are you using?


Cheers,
Carlos

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adrian...@aklaver.com

[Carlos Córdoba]

Which file did you download? spyder-2.3.0.dmg or spyder-2.3.0.zip?

El 31/07/14 a las #4, Chiara Maria Aruffo escribió:

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[Chiara Maria Aruffo]

It was spyder-2.3.0.dmg, I just downloaded it and move the .dmg file into Application as I normally do for installing new programs in my MacBook.

It opens and works fine, the only problem is that it has python 2.7 and not Python 3.4. As I said, I am new to the programming world, and I am learning how to use Python 3.4, so working with Python 2.7 is not really ideal for me!

Ch.

[Carlos Córdoba]

Ok, using our dmg is just fine, but I needed to know exactly what file you downloaded to give you the right advice.

Let me explain you how things work between Python 2 and 3. The thing is these versions are incompatible, so we need to create different installers for both. The installer you downloaded works only for Python 2 and it comes with its own Python version inside it (so it doesn't use any version installed in your system). That's why you see Python 2.7 reported in the IPython console.

To support Python 3.4 I need to create a new installer with its own internal version. But for the moment I don't have the resources nor the time to do it (because it's a long and arduous process :-)

However, I hope to do it during the next months, so stay tuned!


Cheers,
Carlos

El 01/08/14 a las #4, Chiara Maria Aruffo escribió:

[Chiara Maria Aruffo]

thanks Carlos, I understand!

as I said I downloaded spyder-2.3.0.dmg, and as far as I understood it has inside python 2.7 that means I can work with it for the moment and try to learn the differences between python 2 and 3. Then when the installer with python 3.4 will be ready I will switch to it.

thanks a lot for your time!

Ch.

[Benoit RIVET]

Le vendredi 1 août 2014 14:34:19 UTC+2, Carlos Córdoba a écrit :

To support Python 3.4 I need to create a new installer with its own internal version. But for the moment I don't have the resources nor the time to do it (because it's a long and arduous process :-)

However, I hope to do it during the next months, so stay tuned!

Just like Chiara, I expected the Spyder 2.3 release in order to be able to have it installed easily by the few students of mine working on Mac OS X and was a bit disappointed when I realized that the dmg installer used Python 2.7 but not Pyhon 3. I use the MacPorts version of Python directly via the Terminal at home, but wouldn't recommend it for beginners (Spyder can be installed via MacPorts, but launches from the Terminal if I remember correctly). So a Python 3 dmg installer shall be very welcome :-)

Thanks for your efforts, your work is really appreciated by my students, my colleagues and myself,

Benoît

[Carlos Córdoba]

Thanks a lot Benoit for your kind words. I'll try to create a Python 3 ready dmg for 2.3.1 (to be released at the end of the month).


Cheers,
Carlos

El 05/08/14 a las #4, Benoit RIVET escribió: