Spyder (software)

Features

• An editor with syntax highlighting, introspection, code completion
• Support for multiple IPython consoles
• The ability to explore and edit variables from a GUI
• A Help pane able to retrieve and render rich text documentation on functions, classes and methods automatically or on-demand
• A debugger linked to IPdb, for step-by-step execution
• Static code analysis, powered by Pylint
• A run-time Profiler, to benchmark code
• Project support, allowing work on multiple development efforts simultaneously
• A built-in file explorer, for interacting with the filesystem and managing projects
• A "Find in Files" feature, allowing full regular expression search over a specified scope
• An online help browser, allowing users to search and view Python and package documentation inside the IDE
• A history log, recording every user command entered in each console
• An internal console, allowing for introspection and control over Spyder's own operation

  Plugins

• Spyder-Unittest, which integrates the popular unit testing frameworks Pytest, Unittest and Nose with Spyder
• Spyder-Notebook, allowing the viewing and editing of Jupyter Notebooks within the IDE
• Spyder-Reports, enabling use of literate programming techniques in Python
• Spyder-Terminal, adding the ability to open, control and manage cross-platform system shells within Spyder
• Spyder-Vim, containing commands and shortcuts emulating the Vim text editor
• Spyder-AutoPEP8, which can automatically conform code to the standard PEP 8 code style
• Spyder-Line-Profiler and Spyder-Memory-Profiler, extending the built-in profiling functionality to include testing an individual line, and measuring memory usage