SPYDER(1)

📦 version 4.2.1, in ubuntu jammy

💖 SPYDER 💖

okay bestie, welcome to spyder — the manual page for the Scientific Python Development Environment, live from the SPYDER(1) section of your friendly neighbourhood man pages. pull up a chair, we're gonna read the whole thing together 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

spyder [options] [filenames]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. options and filenames, in that order, and she's ready to go ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea — Spyder literally 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 (an enhanced interactive Python interpreter, periodt) plus popular Python libraries like NumPy (linear algebra), SciPy (signal and image processing) and matplotlib (interactive 2D/3D plotting) 🌈

like… she does it all. main character energy fr fr.

✨ OPTIONS ✨

one bullet per option, no skipping, we're being thorough because that's what besties do 🎀

  • -h, --help — show this help message and exit. literally the "help me bestie" button 🙈
  • --new-instance — run a new instance of Spyder, even if the single instance mode has been turned on (that's the default, btw). sometimes you just need a fresh one, no cap 💅
  • --defaults — reset configuration settings to defaults. factory reset her ✨
  • --reset — remove all configuration files. gone. deleted. not me being dramatic but it's giving scorched earth 💀
  • --optimize — optimize the Spyder bytecode. lowkey may require administrative privileges, so like… know your permissions 👑
  • -w WORKING_DIRECTORY, --workdir=WORKING_DIRECTORY — set the default working directory. tell her where to hang out 🏠
  • --show-console — do not hide parent console window (Windows only, iykyk) 🪟
  • --multithread — execute the internal console in a separate thread (from the main application thread). multitasking queen 🧵
  • --profile — run spyder in profile mode (for internal testing, not related with Python profiling — read that twice, bestie, it's a whole different thing) 📊
  • --window-title=WINDOW_TITLE — show this string in the main window title. name her whatever you want 🎀
  • -p OPEN_PROJECT, --project=OPEN_PROJECT — open a Spyder project (directory with a .spyproject folder). yes, it has to have that folder, that's the whole point 🗂️

😭 BUGS 😭

if you find a bug (and bestie, you might), please consider reporting it to the Spyder issue tracker at <https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/issues>.

like genuinely, they wanna know. be kind, be specific, attach the traceback 🫶

and that's the whole page, no notes. this was the SPYDER(1) manual page, version from the spyder source, dated as shown in the original header and footer — go forth and slay your Python, bestie 💖✨🎀🦋🌸💅

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