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by ccordoba12 5y ago
That will be reverted in the next version, i.e. it'll be optional.
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by ccordoba12 6y ago
Thanks for your remarks! I think they are a testament to what we're really trying to: provide a comfortable environment to do scientific computing that also has the nice features you can find in IDEs designed for professional software
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by ccordoba12 6y ago
We were aware of that and very careful to not allow something like it for Spyder users.
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by ccordoba12 6y ago
You're probably using an old version of Spyder because this problem was fixed a long time ago: https://github.com/jupyter/qtconsole/pull/397
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by ccordoba12 6y ago
At the time we did that poll we had ~1000 followers on Twitter, so that's 15% of our audience, which is pretty good for an online poll. But more important than that, we receive ~200 issues per month on Github (which makes us one of the
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by ccordoba12 6y ago
> My concern with this would be that you've arguably turned a nice free (as in freedom!), open-source-tool into a vehicle to push more or less proprietary and user-tracking code onto naive, unknowing users I respectfully disagree. F
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by ccordoba12 6y ago
We're working to improve that
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by ccordoba12 6y ago
Because it'd make everything look huge in non-high DPI displays. It's a trade off, but most people still use them.
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by ccordoba12 6y ago
Sure, it works with any Python installation/environment that has spyder-kernels installed.
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by ccordoba12 6y ago
Unfortunately we haven't had time to address that, but it's high in our TODO list. We hope to do it this year.
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by ccordoba12 6y ago
Thanks for the feedback. That's planned for this year, i.e. to have auto-updating and signed installers (at least on Mac). So stay tuned.
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by ccordoba12 6y ago
Great! It's too late for us to include it in our next version (4.2.2), but we'll definitely consider it for Spyder 5.0, to be released in April.
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by ccordoba12 6y ago
They funded us to implement this feature: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26042582 But we also consider it a nice suggestion to our users, for a feature they've asked for years to make more reliable and robust.
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by ccordoba12 6y ago
Yeah, updates in Anaconda can be bumpy. That's why we decided to create our own installers for Windows and Mac: https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/releases/tag/v4.2.1
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by ccordoba12 6y ago
Well, this is the thing: code completion in Python is not a a simple task and we've struggled for years to improve it. Now we support the Language Server Protocol (designed by Microsoft for VSCode), but still things are not great, i.e.
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by ccordoba12 6y ago
> Also, just wanna say Spyder looks like it's come a long way in the last decade. Congrats on some fine work! Oh yeah, this is so true! Ten years ago, when I joined the project, it was just Pierre (Spyder's original author) and
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by ccordoba12 6y ago
Thanks a lot for your kind words! And I'm glad to know Spyder works smoothly for you with pip (it's not usually the case). Too bad you had a bad experience with Kite, but (as I said several times here), it's completely option
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by ccordoba12 6y ago
Yes, you can disable hovers and hints completely. For that you need to go to the menu Tools > Preferences and then Completion and linting > Introspection and disable there "Show calltips" and "Enable h
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by ccordoba12 6y ago
As I said, it's a two times thing, but if it bothers you so much, we could a command line option to disable those messages completely. Would that be ok?
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by ccordoba12 6y ago
Thanks a lot your kind words! I'm really glad you enjoyed using Spyder and have fond memories of it.
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by ccordoba12 6y ago
Agreed, installing Spyder with pip can lead to a lot of headaches. That's why we don't recommend to use it and suggest Anaconda/conda instead. But that solution also became problematic during the last couple of years (conda i
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by ccordoba12 6y ago
Fixed now, sorry for the inconvenience.
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by ccordoba12 6y ago
Right, we haven't had resources to invest on it, so it's been developed by the community. It'd be nice if we could use Neovim for text manipulations and show what comes back from it in our editor. If only days had 36 hours...
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by ccordoba12 6y ago
> The link to the 'editor' page 404s We just fixed this. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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by ccordoba12 6y ago
Yes, it's written in PyQt and we integrate with a lot of libraries in the Scientific Python ecosystem (Pandas, Sympy, IPython, Matplotlib, Scipy, Cython, etc).
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by ccordoba12 6y ago
I respectfully disagree. The variable explorer allows to check what variables you have declared and how they change with changes in your code. This is critical for scientific computing because you're constantly interacting with data (i
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by ccordoba12 6y ago
Thanks for the confirmation @buo. There's really nothing special about installing Spyder, i.e. we don't install Kite behind the scenes or anything like that.
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by ccordoba12 6y ago
I don't understand your question. Kite doesn't come pre-installed with Spyder. We only show a dialog once informing users that Spyder can use Kite to improve code completions in our editor. After that, if a completion can't b
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by ccordoba12 6y ago
( Spyder maintainer here ) Kite is completely optional for Spyder. If you don't like it, you can uninstall it and Spyder will continue working without any issues.
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by ccordoba12 6y ago
Yes, we definitely improved on that front. Spyder should be more responsive now. You should give it a try with our new installers for Windows and macOS, which save you the trouble of installing Anaconda: https://github.com/s

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