ANN: Spyder v2.2

[Pierre Raybaut]

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 v2.2 has been released and is available for Windows XP/Vista/7/8, GNU/Linux and MacOS X: http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/.

This release represents 18 months of development since v2.1 and introduces major enhancements and new features:

 * Full support for IPython v0.13, including the ability to attach to existing kernels

 * New MacOS X application

 * Much improved debugging experience

 * Various editor improvements for code completion, zooming, auto insertion, and syntax highlighting

 * Better looking and faster Object Inspector

 * Single instance mode

 * Spanish tranlation of the interface

 * And many other changes: http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/wiki/ChangeLog

This is the last release to support Python 2.5:

 * Spyder 2.2 supports Python 2.5 to 2.7

 * Spyder 2.3 will support Python 2.7 and Python 3

 * (Spyder 2.1.14dev4 is a development release which already supports Python 3)

See also https://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/downloads/list.

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 favourite environment!

(http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/wiki/NoteForContributors)

Enjoy!

-Pierre

[Sylvain Corlay]

Congratulations to Carlos Jed and Pierre for this new release. 

Best, 

Sylvain

[Uwe Fechner]

Hello,

I am happy that 2.2 is finally released.

One question:
I installed Spyder on Ubuntu 12.04 using easy_install -U spyder .

It is working fine, but the documentation cannot be found.

If I press F1 I get the message:
Could not find "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dis.../lib/spyderlib/doc/index.html".

Any idea how to install the documentation?

Best regards:

Uwe Fechner

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[Sylvain Corlay]

Sorry guys, I did not notice it was cc-ed to numpy-discussion etc...

Best

[Pierre Raybaut]

No problem: the more, the merrier!

;-)

-Pierre

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[Sylvain Corlay]

By the way Pierre, you could probably get more people to know about spyder by posting an announcement in the python section of developpez.com (in French). 

Do you have any plan for a new version of pythonxy with the latest release of spyder ?
Cheers, 

Sylvain