Overview

Spyder is a Python development environment with the following features:

Editor:

Multi-language editor with function/class browser, code analysis (pyflakes and pylint are currently supported), horizontal/vertical splitting, etc.

Documentation viewer:

Automatically show documentation (if available, or source code otherwise) for any class instantiation or function call made in a Python shell (interactive/external console, see below)

Interactive Console:

Python shell with workspace support (variable explorer with GUI based editors: dictionary editor, array editor, ...) and matplotlib figures integration

External Console (separate process):

Run Python scripts (interactive, debugging or normal mode) or open a Python interpreter with variable explorer and documentation viewer support (a basic terminal window may also be opened with the external console)

Explorer:

File/directory explorer

Find in files feature:

Supporting regular expressions and mercurial repositories

History log

Spyder may also be used as a PyQt4 extension library (module ‘spyderlib’). For example, the Python interactive shell widget used in Spyder may be embedded in your own PyQt4 application.