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Spyder

Score8.5 out of 10

35 Reviews and Ratings

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What is Spyder?

Spyder is a free and open source scientific environment for Python. It combines advanced editing, analysis, debugging, and profiling, with data exploration, interactive execution, deep inspection, and visualization capabilities. Spyder is sponsored by open source supporters QuanSight, and NumFOCUS, as well as individual donors.

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Best Oper source Python IDE

Incentivized
Ranu Singh
Technology Manager in Research & Development at Kainoos (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Spyder is one of our IDE that we're using for coding in python. Earlier I was using it for all kind of development in python but now I have restricted it's usage for writing single file code or writing scripts only. Apart from this it also provides limited data visualization for data structures and data frames too. It makes us easy to perform data related work too.

Pros

  • Provides wider screen to read and write code and flexibility to adjust size as per requirement.
  • While running the code it provide the variable overview and memory overview
  • Lightweight and easily available in Anaconda Navigator
  • Multiple compilation options are available
  • Works well for data analytics, Django, Flask and Fast API frameworks

Cons

  • Auto save functionality must be provided and files should be preserved on opening again
  • I didn't find folder explorer option which makes it difficult work with projects with multiple files.
  • Dark theme is good but light theme needs improvements

Return on Investment

  • Not direct impact of business ROI but helped in improving coding process which leads to better and faster deployment

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Notepad++ and Microsoft Visual Studio Code

Other Software Used

Jupyter Notebook, MATLAB

Spyder - great for anybody using Python

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Engineering (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Spyder is a Python IDE, and it is used by myself and my peers to write and run various Python scripts. Being a scientific organisation, this often means running scripts that will perform scientific functions for us. Of particular use to us is the built in plot feature within the GUI, meaning that as we run our scripts, useful plots are visible there and then.

Pros

  • Python IDE
  • No need to install python itself
  • Plots
  • Shows variables
  • Can show other data files

Cons

  • Remember GUI layout settings
  • Allow plots to be viewed in their own window/made bigger
  • Choose python version

Return on Investment

  • Easy to analyse data
  • Easy to be able to visualise data
  • Easy to convert data from one domain to another.

Usability

This editor helped me learn Python

Ammar AboalrubView profile
Freelancer in Customer Service at Self Employed (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

One of the big problems that I solved using the Spyder editor was mastering the basics of Python through which I understood how to practice programming, and I understood the way other languages ​​work for use in other editors, as well as using the Python libraries that are inside Spyder when it was loaded.

Pros

  • data analysis
  • Speed in displaying output
  • The large number of libraries
  • Very easy user interface

Cons

  • Colors in code format
  • Add a broadcast to share the project with friends
  • Contains more than one important language such as Python

Most Important Features

  • the keyboard shortcuts
  • flexible in dealing and very suitable for beginners
  • it is open source and you can now download it and start using it
  • Auto complete the words in the code

Return on Investment

  • I found that there are errors in the output panel
  • Shows unwanted results

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Visual Studio Code

Other Software Used

Microsoft Visual Studio Code, PyCharm, Python IDLE

Spyder Review

Dilip JainView profile
Data Engineeer in Engineering at Wedvyah (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

  • Well formatted comments in the code.
  • It's Free and Open source to use any library in python
  • Spyder is best suited for Python only with data analysis and reporting generation operations.

Cons

  • Spyder can improve the data Analysis part, means how they show plotting's, charts and all
  • Spyder can be improved when it comes with full set of the libraries that generally used in the Data Science

Most Important Features

  • It's Free and open source.
  • It is easy to use and handy tool with different types of themes.
  • Well documented and commented code
  • Attractive interface and UI

Return on Investment

  • Not suitable for collaborative work.
  • Difficult to setup its environment
  • Suitable for Python only.

Alternatives Considered

Anaconda, Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Python IDLE and PyCharm

Other Software Used

PyCharm, Anaconda, Python IDLE, Jupyter Notebook

Spyder: a user friendly python programming platform

Incentivized
Saransh DikshitView profile
Graduate Research Assistant in Engineering at Iowa State University (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Debugging of your existing code
  • Generates figures very quickly as part of a figures tab which lets users understand results quickly
  • Different layouts are available for the software which will give the users freedom to decide what layout works best for them

Cons

  • The results tab needs to improved.
  • The software requires a bit of a learning curve. Tutorials about how the software can be used should be added.

Most Important Features

  • Strong debugging
  • Quick figure generation
  • Different layout types to meet user needs

Return on Investment

  • It has helped me learn python quickly
  • The ability to generate figures quickly and interact with them is helpful

Alternatives Considered

Jupyter Notebook and MATLAB

Other Software Used

MATLAB, Jupyter Notebook, AutoCAD