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https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder
https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder


For me there are three critical features, which it has:
For me there are 4 critical features, which it has:
* It includes a source level debugger.
* It includes a source level debugger.
* It is cross-platform.
* It is cross-platform.
* It has code completion.
* It has code completion.
* '''Installing it does not require admin rights on Windows''', so I have added it to my toolbox of portable Windows tools.


Installing it does not require admin rights on Windows, so I can use it everywhere.
It's unusual in that it opens an IPython interpreter as its console window
so you can just type in random python there. At Ceres we used it like a shell prompt to run code much like running commands.


It's unusual in that it opens an IPython interpreter as its console window
== ArcPy ==
so you can just type in random python there.


== ArcGIS ==
My initial interest in spyder was to debug code running on Windows using arcpy.
That means I have to use a 2.7 kernel.


My primary interest is to debug code running on Windows using arcpy.
Does that mean installing arcpy in a different place or getting spyder to use the Python that ESRI installs?
That means I have to use a 2.7 kernel. Does that mean installing arcpy in a different place
There are some options for this in the [[Anaconda]] page. You can install a copy of python 2.7 and put a .pth file
or getting spyder to use the Python that ESRI installs?
into it that points at the ESRI arcpy code. This fools it into working.


I think it's the same as in the Mac -- edit the configuration settings to tell it which Python interpreter to use.
On the Mac I edited the configuration settings to tell it which Python interpreter to use.
In the Mac I have to text edit ~/.spyder/spider.ini and change "Default" to "false" and "executable" to point at the right Python.
In the Mac I have to text edit ~/.spyder/spider.ini and change "Default" to "false" and "executable" to point at the right Python.
Maybe the preferences editor works in Windows?? It won't let me pick /usr/local/bin/python on the Mac, it ignores the change.


== Remote debugging ==
== Remote debugging ==
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I wonder if I could use a copy on my Mac to debug code running on a Parallels machine.
I wonder if I could use a copy on my Mac to debug code running on a Parallels machine.


== Mac ==
== Mac install note ==
 
Compared with Windows this is starting to seem difficult! I ran through several attempts before deriving the following.
 
=== Anaconda ===
 
[[Anaconda]] is a life changing decision not a software package. I am going to try it out now. 5-12-17
 
=== Alternatively, Spyder WITHOUT Anaoconda ===
 
I could not find a combination of brew and pip commands that would give me a working spyder.
 
With Windows I found [https://conda.io/miniconda.html miniconda] worked, trying it on the Mac. The full "Anaconda" package is big and all I want is spyder!
I grabbed the 2.7 python version, I like python 3 but most of the GIS stuff around seems to prefer 2.7.
At least in the ESRI world.
 
So download the shell script, run it, installing miniconda in your home directory.
Change your path. Then you can run "conda install spyder".
 
This installs (yet another) Python environment. I do '''NOT''' put ~/miniconda2/bin into my system PATH.
Instead I create symlinks as needed from ~/bin


  cd ~/bin
  cd ~/bin
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  ln -s ../miniconda2/bin/spyder
  ln -s ../miniconda2/bin/spyder


Since I have ~/bin on my path already this works. I can launch spyder 3 now.
Instead of trying to trick Spyder into using another Python, I just switched over to using Spyder for GIS
In spyder I can set the python executable. The default is "/Users/bwilson/miniconda2/bin/python". The "preferences" did not WORK.
and I install modules using "conda install ''modulename''", e.g. "conda install gdal" will install the latest gdal.
I had to edit ~/.spyder/spyder.ini directly and I set "executable" = "/usr/local/bin/python" and "Default=false".
 
You can use virtual environments, this will set one up called "gis" and
install all the modules that arcgis and gdal depend upon.


You can tell it worked by looking at the console in spyder (lower right). It should NOT say "Continuum" next to Python 2.7.13
conda create -n gis -c esri arcgis gdal


I think I sort of have it working, now I have to learn more about Spyder itself.
Now you have to tell spyder that you want it to use that virtualenv environment.

Revision as of 03:55, 17 May 2017

Spyder is an IDE for Python. I learned of it when working for Ceres Imaging.

https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder

For me there are 4 critical features, which it has:

  • It includes a source level debugger.
  • It is cross-platform.
  • It has code completion.
  • Installing it does not require admin rights on Windows, so I have added it to my toolbox of portable Windows tools.

It's unusual in that it opens an IPython interpreter as its console window so you can just type in random python there. At Ceres we used it like a shell prompt to run code much like running commands.

ArcPy

My initial interest in spyder was to debug code running on Windows using arcpy. That means I have to use a 2.7 kernel.

Does that mean installing arcpy in a different place or getting spyder to use the Python that ESRI installs? There are some options for this in the Anaconda page. You can install a copy of python 2.7 and put a .pth file into it that points at the ESRI arcpy code. This fools it into working.

On the Mac I edited the configuration settings to tell it which Python interpreter to use. In the Mac I have to text edit ~/.spyder/spider.ini and change "Default" to "false" and "executable" to point at the right Python.

Remote debugging

This is something I can do in Komodo, but I have not needed it in some time, so I have not tried it in Spyder yet. Some notes: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/spyderlib/remote%7Csort:relevance/spyderlib/usljVmI50GI/BdjmwX1k4nAJ

I wonder if I could use a copy on my Mac to debug code running on a Parallels machine.

Mac install note

cd ~/bin
ln -s ../miniconda2/bin/conda
ln -s ../miniconda2/bin/spyder

Instead of trying to trick Spyder into using another Python, I just switched over to using Spyder for GIS and I install modules using "conda install modulename", e.g. "conda install gdal" will install the latest gdal.

You can use virtual environments, this will set one up called "gis" and install all the modules that arcgis and gdal depend upon. 

conda create -n gis -c esri arcgis gdal

Now you have to tell spyder that you want it to use that virtualenv environment.

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