Carlos Córdoba
2016-09-27 08:37:04 UTC
Hi all,
On the behalf of the Spyder Project Contributors
(https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/graphs/contributors), Iâm pleased
to announce that Spyder 3.0 has been released and is available for
Windows, GNU/Linux and MacOS X:
https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/releases
Spyder is a free, open-source (MIT license) interactive development
environment for the Python language with advanced editing, interactive
testing, debugging and introspection features. It was designed to
provide MATLAB-like features integrated help, interactive console,
variable explorer with GUI-based editors for NumPy arrays and Pandas
dataframes), it is strongly oriented towards scientific computing and
software development.
This release represents more than two years of development since version
2.3.0 was released, and it introduces major enhancements and new
features. The most important ones are:
* Third-party plugins: External developers can now create plugins that
extend Spyder in novel and interesting ways. For example, we already
have plugins for the line-profiler and memory-profiler projects, and
also a graphical frontend for the conda package manager. These
plugins can be distributed as pip and/or conda packages for authors
convenience.
* Improved projects support: Projects have been revamped and improved
significantly in Spyder 3.0. With our new projects support, people
will have the possibility of easily working on different coding
efforts at the same time. Thatâs because projects save the state of
open files in the Editor and allow Python packages created as part
of the project to be imported in our consoles.
* Support for much more programming languages: Spyder relies now on
the excellent Pygments library to provide syntax highlight and
suggest code completions in the Editor, for all programming
languages supported by it.
* A new file switcher: Spyder 3.0 comes with a fancy file switcher,
very similar in spirit to the one present in Sublime Text. This is a
dialog to select among the open files in the Editor, by doing a
fuzzy search through their names. It also lets users to view the
list of classes, methods and functions defined in the current file,
and select one of them. This dialog is activated with |Ctrl+P|.
* A Numpy array graphical builder: Users who need to create NumPy
arrays in Spyder for matrices and vectors can do it now in a
graphical way by pressing |Ctrl+M| in the Editor or the Consoles.
This will open an empty 2D table widget to be filled with the data
required by the user.
* A new icon theme based on FontAwesome.
* A new set of default pane layouts for those coming from Rstudio or
Matlab (under |View > Window layouts|).
* A simpler and more intuitive way to introduce keyboard shortcuts.
* Support for PyQt5, which fixes problems in MacOS X and in high
definition screens.
For a complete list of changes, please see here:
https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/blob/3.x/CHANGELOG.md
Spyder 2.3 has been a huge success (being downloaded almost 550,000
times!) and we hope 3.0 will be as successful as it. For that we fixed
203 important bugs, merged 218 pull requests from about 40 authors and
added almost 2850 commits between these two releases.
Donât forget to follow Spyder updates/news on the project Github
website: https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder
Last, but not least, we welcome any contribution that helps making
Spyder an efficient scientific development/computing environment. Join
us to help creating your favorite environment!
Enjoy!
-Carlos
â
On the behalf of the Spyder Project Contributors
(https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/graphs/contributors), Iâm pleased
to announce that Spyder 3.0 has been released and is available for
Windows, GNU/Linux and MacOS X:
https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/releases
Spyder is a free, open-source (MIT license) interactive development
environment for the Python language with advanced editing, interactive
testing, debugging and introspection features. It was designed to
provide MATLAB-like features integrated help, interactive console,
variable explorer with GUI-based editors for NumPy arrays and Pandas
dataframes), it is strongly oriented towards scientific computing and
software development.
This release represents more than two years of development since version
2.3.0 was released, and it introduces major enhancements and new
features. The most important ones are:
* Third-party plugins: External developers can now create plugins that
extend Spyder in novel and interesting ways. For example, we already
have plugins for the line-profiler and memory-profiler projects, and
also a graphical frontend for the conda package manager. These
plugins can be distributed as pip and/or conda packages for authors
convenience.
* Improved projects support: Projects have been revamped and improved
significantly in Spyder 3.0. With our new projects support, people
will have the possibility of easily working on different coding
efforts at the same time. Thatâs because projects save the state of
open files in the Editor and allow Python packages created as part
of the project to be imported in our consoles.
* Support for much more programming languages: Spyder relies now on
the excellent Pygments library to provide syntax highlight and
suggest code completions in the Editor, for all programming
languages supported by it.
* A new file switcher: Spyder 3.0 comes with a fancy file switcher,
very similar in spirit to the one present in Sublime Text. This is a
dialog to select among the open files in the Editor, by doing a
fuzzy search through their names. It also lets users to view the
list of classes, methods and functions defined in the current file,
and select one of them. This dialog is activated with |Ctrl+P|.
* A Numpy array graphical builder: Users who need to create NumPy
arrays in Spyder for matrices and vectors can do it now in a
graphical way by pressing |Ctrl+M| in the Editor or the Consoles.
This will open an empty 2D table widget to be filled with the data
required by the user.
* A new icon theme based on FontAwesome.
* A new set of default pane layouts for those coming from Rstudio or
Matlab (under |View > Window layouts|).
* A simpler and more intuitive way to introduce keyboard shortcuts.
* Support for PyQt5, which fixes problems in MacOS X and in high
definition screens.
For a complete list of changes, please see here:
https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/blob/3.x/CHANGELOG.md
Spyder 2.3 has been a huge success (being downloaded almost 550,000
times!) and we hope 3.0 will be as successful as it. For that we fixed
203 important bugs, merged 218 pull requests from about 40 authors and
added almost 2850 commits between these two releases.
Donât forget to follow Spyder updates/news on the project Github
website: https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder
Last, but not least, we welcome any contribution that helps making
Spyder an efficient scientific development/computing environment. Join
us to help creating your favorite environment!
Enjoy!
-Carlos
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