spyder-ide/spyder v4.0.0

Spyder 4.0.0

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Spyder 4 comes with several interesting and exciting new features. The most important ones are:

• Main Window

  • Dark theme for the entire application.
  • A new Plots pane to browse all inline figures generated by the
    IPython console.
  • Rename the following panes:
    • Static code analysis to Code Analysis
    • File explorer to Files
    • Find in files to Find
    • History log to History
    • Project explorer to Project
  • Create a separate window when undocking all panes.
  • Show current conda environment (if any) in the status bar.

• Editor

  • Code folding.
  • Indentation guides.
  • A class/method/function lookup panel. This can be shown in the menu
    Source > Show selector for classes and functions.
  • Autosave functionality to recover unsaved files after a crash.
  • Optional integration with the Kite completion
    engine.
  • Code completion and linting are provided by the Python Language Server.

• IPython Console

  • Run files in an empty namespace.
  • Open dedicated consoles for Pylab, Sympy and Cython.
  • Run cells through a new function called runcell.
  • Run cells by name.

• Debugger

  • Code completion.
  • Execute multi-line statements.
  • Syntax highlighting.
  • Permanent history.
  • runfile and runcell can be called when the debugger is active.
  • Debug cells with Alt+Shift+Return.

• Variable Explorer

  • New viewer to inspect any Python object in a tree-like representation.
  • Filter variables by name or type.
  • MultiIndex support in the Dataframe viewer.
  • Support for all Pandas indexes.
  • Support for sets.
  • Support for Numpy object arrays.
  • Restore the ability to refresh it while code is being executed.

• Files

  • Associate external applications to open specific file extensions.
  • Context menu action to open files externally.
  • Multi-select functionality with Ctrl/Shift + mouse click.
  • Copy/paste files and their absolute or relative paths.
  • Use special icons for different file types.

• Outline

  • Show cells grouped in sections.
  • Add default name to all cells.

For the full list of closed issues and merged pull requests in this release, please see our Changelog.