[ANN] Spyder-unittest 0.6.0 is released

[Jitse Niesen]

Hi all,

On the behalf of all contributors, I'm pleased to announce that version 0.6.0 of the unittest plugin for Spyder has been released. You can use the plugin to run suites of automatic tests and display their results. This release contains several new features and bug fixes. You can now run tests using the nose2 framework, the successor to the nose framework which is no longer maintained. See the changelog for further details.

The plugin can be installed using conda or mamba from the conda-forge channel. An alternative installation method is to use pip. Spyder's stand-alone installer unfortunately does not yet allow you to install plugins.

Please report bugs and feature requests on the project GitHub website: https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-unittest

Last, but not least, we welcome any contribution that helps making Spyder an efficient scientific development and computing environment. Join us to help creating your favourite environment!

Enjoy!
-Jitse

[johndou...@gmail.com]

Hi all,

 

I am new to python and have just started to get my head around using Spyder. Can someone tell me how I can use pip to upgrade to Ver 6 of Spyder Please.

 

Regards John

 

[Jitse Niesen]

Hi John,

Spyder 6 is not finished yet; only an alpha version has been released (in case you don't know, an alpha version is a half-finished product which still suffers from bugs and other problems). If you are new to Python and Spyder, I would recommend that you don't install the alpha version because if something is not as you expect, you won't know whether that is because you did something wrong or because there is something wrong in Spyder.

However, the alpha version is not a secret and if you really want to, you can install it. Use a virtual environment, so that you can easily undo the installation if something goes wrong. See for instance the guide Installing packages using pip and virtual environments if you need to learn how to do this. Once you are in a virtual environment, the command for installing the alpha release of Spyder using pip is

   python3 -m pip install --pre spyder

The --pre flag indicates that you want a pre-release (a version that is not yet ready to be released).

I hope this answers your question.

All the best,

Jitse