[ANN] Spyder 3.0 fourth public beta release
Carlos Córdoba
Hi all,
On the behalf of
Spyder’s development team (https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/graphs/contributors),
I’m pleased to announce the fourth beta of our next major
version: Spyder 3.0.
We’ve been working on
this version for almost two years now and as far as we know
it’s working very well. There are still several bugs to squash
but we encourage all
people who like the bleeding edge to give it a try. This beta
version is released
three weeks after our third one and it includes more than 150
commits!
Spyder 3.0 comes with
several interesting and exciting new features. The most
important ones are:
- Support for much more programming
languages: Spyder relies now on the excellent Pygments
library to provide syntax highlight and suggest code completions in the Editor, for all
programming languages supported by it. - A new file switcher: Spyder 3.0
will come with a fancy file switcher, very similar in
spirit to the one present in Sublime Text. This is a dialog to select among the open
files in the Editor, by doing a fuzzy search through their names. It also lets users to
view the list of classes, methods and functions defined in the current file, and select
one of them. This dialog is activated withCtrl+P. - A Numpy array graphical builder:
Users who need to create NumPy arrays in Spyder for
matrices and vectors can do it now in a graphical way by pressingCtrl+Min the Editor
or the Consoles. This will open an empty 2D table widget to be filled with the data
required by the user. - A new icon theme based on FontAwesome.
- A new set of default pane layouts
for those coming from Rstudio or Matlab (under
View > Window layouts). - A simpler and more intuitive way to introduce keyboard shortcuts.
- Support for PyQt5, which fixes problems in MacOS X and in high definition screens.
For a complete list of changes, please see here:
https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/wiki/Beta-version-changelog
You can easily install this beta if you use Anaconda by running:
conda update qt pyqt
conda install -c spyder-ide spyder==3.0.0b4
Or you can use pip with this command:
pip install --pre -U spyder
Enjoy!
-Carlos
