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Cassandra L Smith

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Oct 15, 2024, 11:38:11 PM10/15/24
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I find spyder very buggy.  Does anyone use spyder on mac.
I have tried spyder in anaconda, most recent on intel system with Sequoia os.

I understand that anaconda no longer supports spyder so I do not understand why Edx recmmends using this set up for a course mit 600.  For instance, cut andpast are sometmes greyed out and sometimes not greyed out.  This toggle is for reasons I cannot figure out.  I can use cut and past using function keys.  Also, sometimes the console contains lines that are NOT in the file I am running.  The lines belong to older files that I ran in past, and I am not sure that key cap mapping is workingn for spyder. 
I quit the course last time because of this but thought some problems may have been due to that "keyboard" design that is no longer used.  I am very disappointed to see Edx is still spyder for mac.
Please advise if I have the right solution (i.e. trash spyder) or whether I might have specific issues others are not encountering.

Ronan Paixão

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Oct 17, 2024, 8:04:42 PM10/17/24
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I'm sorry to hear you're having problems. Unfortunately, I don't have a Mac and I'm not a Spyder developer, so can't help you much there. (Note: I use Spyder on Windows and went to check this Edit menu problem. I just happened to see the whole Edit menu grayed out also here! Lucky me that I never use the Edit menu, only keyboard shortcuts.)

What I can imagine is that Cmd+C or Cmd+V should also allow you to copy/paste much faster, just as Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V allows in Windows. You may also be able to use drag'n'drop: you select the text you want to copy, and drag to where you want to paste it. If you're copying from inside Spyder, you may have to hold the Cmd key to actually copy the text, instead of moving it.

About the course, it may be the case that the course is a bit old, from the time that Spyder was the main Anaconda IDE (it was!). Today Anaconda doesn't "support" Spyder in the sense of "support financially". However, this does not mean at all that Spyder isn't under active development anymore. The guys here are constantly updating it, which is proven by the recent release of Spyder 6. I love to use it, despite some quirks here and there, and have not yet found a better IDE for interactive development. IDEs like Visual Studio Code focus on running-the-whole-script-from-scratch pattern, but I'm very used to running line-for-line or block-by-block, which I find much more useful for exploratory usage and interactive development.

Hope you can fix or work around your problems! Good luck!
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