spyder1

The scientific python development environment

Usage

spyder [options] [filenames]

Overview

Spyder provides:

•: a powerful interactive development environment for the Python language with advanced editing, interactive testing, debugging and introspection features,

•: and a numerical computing environment thanks to the support of IPython (enhanced interactive Python interpreter) and popular Python libraries such as NumPy (linear algebra), SciPy (signal and image processing) or matplotlib (interactive 2D/3D plotting).

Options

-h, --help: show this help message and exit

--new-instance: run a new instance of Spyder, even if the single instance mode has been turned on (default)

--defaults: reset configuration settings to defaults

--reset: remove all configuration files

--optimize: optimize the Spyder bytecode (may require administrative privileges)

-w WORKING_DIRECTORY, --workdir=WORKING_DIRECTORY: set the default working directory

--show-console: do not hide parent console window (Windows)

--multithread: execute the internal console in a separate thread (from the main application thread)

--profile: run spyder in profile mode (for internal testing, not related with Python profiling)

--window-title=WINDOW_TITLE: show this string in the main window title

-p OPEN_PROJECT, --project=OPEN_PROJECT: open a Spyder project (directory with a .spyproject folder)

History

Debian 13 (Trixie): the text shown here
Debian 12 (Bookworm)
Debian 10 (Buster)
Debian 9 (Stretch) to Debian 7 (Wheezy)
Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)

--defaults since Debian 10 (Buster); --multithread since Debian 10 (Buster); --new-instance since Debian 10 (Buster); --optimize since Debian 10 (Buster); --profile since Debian 10 (Buster); --reset since Debian 10 (Buster); --show-console since Debian 10 (Buster); --window-title since Debian 10 (Buster).

--example until Debian 9 (Stretch); --version until Debian 9 (Stretch); -e until Debian 9 (Stretch); -v until Debian 9 (Stretch).