---
name: "spyder3"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "spyder"
version: "4.2.1+dfsg1-3+deb11u2"
release: "Debian 11 (Bullseye)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/spyder3"
---

# spyder3(1)

The Scientific Python Development Environment

## NAME

spyder - The Scientific Python Development Environment

## SYNOPSIS

**spyder** \[*options*\] \[*filenames*\]

## DESCRIPTION

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)

## BUGS

If you find a bug, please consider reporting it to the Spyder issue tracker at \<*https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/issues*\>.