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Version 4.0beta1 (2018-08-12)

Issues Closed

In this release 74 issues were closed.

Pull Requests Merged

  • PR 7597 - PR: Separate startup run_lines with semicolon instead of comma
  • PR 7410 - PR: Remove manpage
  • PR 7262 - PR: Update donation/funding status message in Readme
  • PR 7167 - PR: Remove missing PyQt4 references in our tests
  • PR 7107 - PR: Show group cells in Outline Explorer (7086)
  • PR 7099 - PR: Add new menu entries to open Pylab, Sympy and Cython consoles (7078)
  • PR 6923 - PR: Improve and update wording of funding announcement, and put screenshot above it
  • PR 6523 - PR: Fix AttributeError in jedi_plugin (6516)
  • PR 6497 - PR: Bump required version for Jedi to 0.11.0 (6474)
  • PR 6440 - PR: Skip test_window_title in PyQt4 and PY3 because it's failing
  • PR 6340 - PR: Fix EditorStack and EditorSplitter not closing correctly.
  • PR 6296 - PR: Fix tests on Travis
  • PR 6151 - PR: Hide unneeded Options buttons
  • PR 6133 - PR: Fix test_dataframemodel_set_data_overflow
  • PR 6079 - PR: Fix flaky test_find_in_files_search
  • PR 6063 - PR: Change fix_indentation to use preference for number of spaces (5678)
  • PR 5842 - PR: Remove if/else/try/for statements from the outline explorer tree (5821)
  • PR 5836 - PR: Give a more modern appearence to the tour
  • PR 5797 - PR: Don't add extra newline when using new file template (1584)
  • PR 5771 - PR: Make arrow-key selection in completion widget "roll over" (5763)
  • PR 5768 - PR: Fix broken shortcuts for changing editor tabs (Ctrl+PageUp, Ctrl+PageDown)
  • PR 5722 - PR: Update obsolete enums in QMessageBox (5721)
  • PR 5706 - PR: Splash SVG font change and convert font to path (5667)
  • PR 5691 - PR: Improve dependencies dialog (5652)
  • PR 5689 - PR: Convert command line options from optparse to argparse (5639)
  • PR 5657 - PR: Allow undo/redo on Source > Fix indentation
  • PR 5603 - PR: Fix crash on empty project explorer context menu (5594)
  • PR 5512 - PR: Add shortcuts for splitting and closing panels (2419)
  • PR 5497 - PR: Add option to toggle code style checks from Source menu (5488)
  • PR 5487 - PR: Handle 'unlocked panes' state for undocking without generating a new window (5486)
  • PR 5471 - PR: Fix test_sort_dataframe_with_category_dtypes
  • PR 5470 - PR: Use indentation preferences to comment/uncomment. (5454)
  • PR 5468 - PR: Fix indentation with selection (5458)
  • PR 5367 - PR: Add an option to the Editor to convert EOL characters on save (5365)
  • PR 5363 - PR: Add an option to show/hide line numbers to History (970)
  • PR 5321 - PR: Rearrange line count when opening files to correspond to the correct one (3857)
  • PR 5309 - PR: Update font decorations when adding them to the editor.
  • PR 5274 - PR: Remove duplicated logic in Editor checkable Actions
  • PR 5262 - PR: Update version in splash screen (5256)
  • PR 5230 - PR: Support for sets in the Variable Explorer (2355)
  • PR 5215 - PR: Scroll flag area improvements (5085)
  • PR 5203 - PR: Unify how extra selections are added to the Editor
  • PR 5159 - PR: Make Ctrl+C to quit Spyder on Posix systems (5305)
  • PR 5149 - PR: Support for all Pandas indexes in Variable Explorer (3758)
  • PR 5139 - PR: Fix error Editor loosing focus
  • PR 5132 - PR: Improve how floating panels are painted (4590)
  • PR 5130 - PR: Deactivate class/function dropdown by default
  • PR 5126 - PR: Add keyboard shortcuts for Next|Previous Warning/Error (4081)
  • PR 5122 - PR: Enable scrolling past the end of the document (3345)
  • PR 5117 - PR: Fix traceback error when selecting Next/Previous warning/error (5116)
  • PR 5083 - PR: Fix unable to split editor
  • PR 5011 - PR: Add all possible string prefixes for syntax highlighting (4884)
  • PR 5002 - PR: Add Editor extensions
  • PR 4968 - PR: Fix error when threre are no layout settings (4963)
  • PR 4939 - PR: Some File Explorer Enhancements (2406)
  • PR 4889 - PR: Fix error at startup when trying to set indent_guides. (4854)
  • PR 4804 - PR: Fix some code folding related errors
  • PR 4788 - PR: Add validation for editorstacks in showing spaces function (4787)
  • PR 4762 - PR: Add missing QMessageBox import
  • PR 4731 - PR: Make searching text to expand folded blocks (4709)
  • PR 4728 - PR: Make folding to ignore indented comments (4708)
  • PR 4627 - PR: Add pyopengl to Linux wheels only
  • PR 4618 - PR: Add German translation
  • PR 4572 - PR: Add indentation guidelines
  • PR 4545 - PR: Take panels widths into account when calculating positions in the Editor (4543)
  • PR 4540 - PR: Fix update title signal
  • PR 4538 - PR: Add Shift+Del shortcut to delete lines in the Editor (4496, 3405)
  • PR 4506 - PR: Add manpage for Spyder (4423)
  • PR 4505 - PR: Fix links to Fedora and openSUSE in docs
  • PR 4503 - PR: Fold improvements
  • PR 4470 - PR: Fix error in Find in Files because of changes in master
  • PR 4392 - PR: Update StackHistory when focus isn't given to the Editor (4376)
  • PR 4286 - PR: Only show removal message in Python consoles (4284)
  • PR 4265 - PR: Improvements to visual style of code-folding
  • PR 4234 - PR: Fix test that looks for print statements
  • PR 4225 - PR: Add a new panel to show/explore class and methods/functions present in the current file (2627)
  • PR 4210 - PR: Fix syntax highlighter missing Cython keywords
  • PR 4198 - PR : Add Cython files import and run support
  • PR 4164 - PR: Fix error edgeline offset, take code folding panel width in account. (4163)
  • PR 4162 - PR: Fix wrong usage of is_text_string
  • PR 4159 - PR: Try to eval string setting values after decoding in python2.7 (4124)
  • PR 4155 - PR: Fix error edge line in python2.7
  • PR 3958 - PR: Comment lines taking into account code indentation and pep8 (2845, 1785)
  • PR 3953 - PR: Prevent error when file with last focus is deleted from project (3942)
  • PR 3937 - PR: Change ScrollFlagArea panel to use panel API
  • PR 3909 - PR: Fix "TypeError: got multiple values for argument" in Profiler (3923)
  • PR 3892 - PR: Raise the menu bar to the top of the main window widget's stack. (3887)
  • PR 3873 - PR: Add multi-index display support to the Dataframe editor (5171, 4018, 3721)
  • PR 3858 - PR: Load files in the background and set focus to the last one with focus in the previous session (3585)
  • PR 3833 - PR: Add code folding to the Editor (706)
  • PR 3824 - PR: Create a separate window when undocking plugins (3790, 3563)
  • PR 3803 - PR: Add CircleCI to run pytest, ciocheck and coveralls
  • PR 3778 - PR: Add Panels and PanelsManager, and use it to add LineNumberArea to editor
  • PR 3727 - PR: Remove SpyderPluginMixin and improve external API
  • PR 3676 - PR: Refactor and simplify NamespaceBrowser widget
  • PR 3650 - PR: Revert error introduced by linenumber migration (3645)
  • PR 3607 - PR: Multiple edge lines preferences (3592, 1778)
  • PR 3577 - PR: Use inspect.getfullargspec() in getdoc for PY3 to support annotated functions. (3571)
  • PR 3574 - PR: Improve style of scientific startup script
  • PR 3534 - PR: Added the Solarized color scheme
  • PR 3512 - PR: Move edge line code out of editor to EdgeLine class (1778)
  • PR 3468 - PR: Move plugin creation to spyder/api/plugins.py for decoupling (3448)
  • PR 3463 - PR: Migrate line number area to a panel widget
  • PR 2431 - PR: Use right python.exe to run Spyder when multiple versions of Python are installled on Windows

In this release 104 pull requests were closed.

Version 3.3.1 (2018-08-11)

New features

Preferences

  • Save the list of custom interpreters introduced in Preferences > Python interpreter.

IPython console

  • Do not save pdb commands in debugging history

Issues Closed

In this release 19 issues were closed.

Pull Requests Merged

  • PR 7659 - PR: Conform tutorial to docs style guide and further minor improvements (7652)
  • PR 7651 - PR: Add runtests.py and conftest.py to our tarball (7639)
  • PR 7650 - PR: Don't require keyring for Python 2 and Linux in our wheels
  • PR 7643 - PR: Edit tutorial to update it, fix errors, copyedit and clarify (7641)
  • PR 7642 - PR: Handle error when doing a browser history update (7328)
  • PR 7611 - PR: Upgrade all links to use HTTPS where available, and fix link targets when broken/redirected
  • PR 7610 - PR: Update conda install command for spyder-kernels 1.x
  • PR 7606 - PR: Fix bug in spyder3.appdata.xml
  • PR 7605 - PR: Send reported issues to Spyder's main repo in DEV mode
  • PR 7598 - PR: Update capitalization of Spyder name, and standardize description with everywhere else
  • PR 7582 - PR: Update setup.py description, metadata, links, and more (7581)
  • PR 7566 - PR: Improve selection of custom interpreter (7529)
  • PR 7560 - PR: Migrate to CircleCI 2.0
  • PR 7546 - PR: Do not automatically open Project Explorer when opening project if user closed it (6292)
  • PR 7543 - PR: Fix misspelling in Japanese translation
  • PR 7515 - PR: Catch errors when saving/getting the list of open files per project (7513)
  • PR 7505 - PR: Add support for numeric literals with underscores highlighting in Python 3.6 (7324)
  • PR 7502 - PR: Setting tab stop width by using the width of multiple spaces (7432)
  • PR 7500 - PR: Handle input commands correctly in the internal console. (1329)
  • PR 7497 - PR: Reinstall Matplotlib in Appveyor in case it had been removed
  • PR 7495 - PR: Avoid raising an error when getting available translations (7489)
  • PR 7478 - PR: Change way to check for updates (7452)
  • PR 7471 - PR: Remove old shortcut for the Python console (7465)
  • PR 7464 - PR: Fix tabulation spacing by setting tab spacing after the font (7432)
  • PR 7463 - PR: Fix connection to external kernels (7082)
  • PR 7462 - PR: Really hide reset namespace warning in IPython console (7404)
  • PR 7453 - PR: Improve message about the lack of spyder-kernels in external interpreters
  • PR 7418 - PR: Update the running Github clone procedure in the readme and contributing guide to include spyder-kernels (7337)
  • PR 7409 - PR: Catch AttributeError when trying to get the active project path (7403)
  • PR 7408 - PR: Remove conda recipe
  • PR 7300 - PR: Do not save pdb commands in debugging history (7299)

In this release 31 pull requests were closed.

Version 3.3 (2018-07-06)

New features

Main Window

  • Add a new error reporting dialog to simplify and automate the process of submitting reports to Github.

IPython console

  • Add an option to use a tight layout with inline plots. Activate it under Preferences > IPython console > Graphics.
  • Add an option to turn on/off Jedi completions. Activate it under Preferences > IPython console > Advanced.

Variable Explorer

  • Change the button names of all its viewers from Ok and Cancel to Save and Close and Close, respectively, to better express what each one really does.
  • Fix several critical memory leaks.

Under the hood

  • Remove support for PyQt 5.4 and older versions.
  • Remove support for PyQt4.
  • Remove support for Python 3.3.
  • Move all code used to create kernels for our consoles to a new package called spyder-kernels. It's required version for Spyder 3.3+ is any 0.x.x release (e.g 0.2.3).
  • Add the keyring package as a new dependency to safely save users Github passwords.

Issues Closed

In this release 51 issues were closed.

Pull Requests Merged

  • PR 7392 - PR: Update Spanish translation for 3.3
  • PR 7376 - PR: Update Brazilian Portuguese translation for 3.3
  • PR 7370 - PR: French translation for 3.3
  • PR 7367 - PR: Update Japanese translation for 3.3
  • PR 7335 - PR: Handle deprecated Pandas methods in tests (7312)
  • PR 7306 - PR: Move all kernel code to an external package called spyder-kernels (6469, 6297)
  • PR 7296 - PR: Fix history browsing while debugging (7295)
  • PR 7294 - PR: Don't allow multiple executions in the IPython console when one is taking place (7293)
  • PR 7287 - PR: Improve detection of users' home directory (6351)
  • PR 7279 - PR: Fix crash while running our tests on CircleCI
  • PR 7278 - PR: Fix links to Travis CI and Google Group
  • PR 7272 - PR: Add validation when renaming the active project outside Spyder (6036)
  • PR 7263 - PR: Catch any error when trying to load third-party plugins (7259)
  • PR 7260 - PR: Add spyder-script.py as a valid name to be detected by lockfile (6899)
  • PR 7254 - PR: Prevent realtime code analysis failures due to encoding errors (6970)
  • PR 7251 - PR: Stop editor from jumping around when adding/removing lines with breakpoints while debugging (5201)
  • PR 7248 - PR: Save credentials in the Github login dialog
  • PR 7246 - PR: Catch possible errors when writing Help's history to disk (6864)
  • PR 7245 - PR: Avoid disabling consoles stop button when an execution is taking place (5958)
  • PR 7243 - PR: Show message in our consoles when trying to run a file while on debugging (6851)
  • PR 7242 - PR: Fix error when viewing dataframe with a non-ascii index (5833)
  • PR 7237 - PR: Improve pythonw detection
  • PR 7234 - PR: Call garbage collector from Main Window after closing Variable Explorer editors (7157, 5830)
  • PR 7232 - PR: Run tests in macOS
  • PR 7230 - PR: Use the error dialog to report issues too (7101)
  • PR 7218 - PR: Limit length of serialized values in Variable Explorer when applying modifications (7158)
  • PR 7210 - PR: Catch EnvironmentError in all places we write to disk (6901)
  • PR 7209 - PR: Fix error when using unicode to search text with regular expressions in the Editor (6812)
  • PR 7206 - PR: Add bytes or unicode ellipses in value_to_display (6942)
  • PR 7202 - PR: Change behavior of Variable Explorer editor buttons (7156)
  • PR 7198 - PR: Add fastmat and pythoncom to UMR blacklist. (7190)
  • PR 7189 - PR: Add env var to prevent showing useless warning in macOS
  • PR 7170 - PR: Change validation to allow pythonw executables as valid interpreters (7059)
  • PR 7169 - PR: Remove internal copy of our docs
  • PR 7168 - PR: Add astropy and pythorch to UMR blacklist by default. (7041, 6962)
  • PR 7166 - PR: Add Matplotlib as optional dependency for the IPython Console. (6887)
  • PR 7165 - PR: Handle not initialized menu in DirView. (6975)
  • PR 7164 - PR: Handle AttributeError when setting color scheme in the IPython Console. (6996)
  • PR 7163 - PR: Show errors generated when creating QtKernelManager inside the IPython console (7161)
  • PR 7160 - PR: Fix typo in 'Save File' french translation. (7100)
  • PR 7159 - PR: Fix a couple of problems when setting and detecting the system locale (7051, 6886)
  • PR 7154 - PR: Filter a Numpy 1.14 warning shown in our consoles (7063)
  • PR 7151 - PR: Avoid loading/saving IPython console history in safe mode or testing (7149)
  • PR 7150 - PR: Catch any exception when trying to get Pygments lexers (7148)
  • PR 7132 - PR: Limit the number of lines in history according to the relevant setting (7080)
  • PR 7115 - PR: Add --safe-mode option to start with a clean config directory (7112)
  • PR 7079 - PR: Add Twitter and Facebook links to Readme, for SEO/visibility
  • PR 7075 - PR: Remove Jedi pinnings in our CIs
  • PR 7029 - PR: Load libGL using low-level function without requiring pyopengl (6968)
  • PR 7007 - PR: Update links to docs when they are ready (5986)
  • PR 6986 - PR: Adapt sphinxify for changes in Sphinx 1.8
  • PR 6977 - PR: Skip tests numpy_returns and matplotlib_figure_returns for now on jedi >=0.12 and pin CIs to 0.11.1
  • PR 6973 - PR: Update minimum Python version in setup.py to 3.4
  • PR 6963 - PR: Add a few extra badges, fix troubleshooting link in readme and update banner
  • PR 6961 - PR: Remove support for PyQt4 (6889)
  • PR 6937 - PR: Check "use a tight layout for inline plots" by default in the preferences
  • PR 6925 - PR: Update contributing doc with better organization, standard links and minor fixes
  • PR 6921 - PR: Fix often failing elapsed time test with fuzzier check and more reps
  • PR 6920 - PR: Fix tests after update to PyQt 5.9
  • PR 6919 - PR: Fix Mayavi plotting in our consoles (6339)
  • PR 6909 - PR: Update readme screenshot, streamline organization, add banner and update/cleanup content
  • PR 6890 - PR: Bump next version to be 3.3.0
  • PR 6870 - PR: Add checklists for Github issue report and pull requests
  • PR 6845 - PR: Remove old code present in our kernel
  • PR 6832 - PR: Add option to use Jedi in the IPython console + warning on greedy completer
  • PR 6826 - PR: Add instance pattern "cls" for class methods
  • PR 6790 - PR: Add an option to control bbox_inches option when plotting inline (6619)
  • PR 6772 - PR: Fix a bug when running a file with a single quote character in its name
  • PR 6769 - PR: Initialize start time to a time and not None (6767)
  • PR 6763 - PR: Add 3.2.8 version header to the changelog
  • PR 6759 - PR: Change Editor's tab switcher from Qt.SubWindow to Qt.Popup for tiling window managers (6834, 6743)
  • PR 6750 - PR: Enclose python exe path in double quotes (6746)
  • PR 6707 - PR: Add authentication dialog to submit issues to Github (6617)

In this release 73 pull requests were closed.

Version 3.2.8 (2018-03-14)

New features

Editor

  • Add Ctrl+Shift+Enter shortcut to introduce new lines at any point.

IPython console

  • Always run Cython files in a dedicated console.

Issues Closed

  • Issue 6729 - ValueError trying to open pandas.DateOffset objects in Variable Explorer (PR 6731)
  • Issue 6728 - AttributeError when attempting to edit non-writeable or non-settable attributes of certain (e.g. many common Pandas) objects in CollectionsEditor (PR 6731)
  • Issue 6727 - TypeError and Python hard crash to desktop after modifying _typ attribute of pandas Period in CollectionsEditor (PR 6731)
  • Issue 6689 - Saving session data (spydata) deletes all arrays nested inside other data structures (PR 6692)
  • Issue 6682 - System time change causes Spyder error (PR 6699)
  • Issue 6673 - AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'apply_plugin_settings' when attempting to activate Automatic Connections for Help
  • Issue 6664 - Typo in introspection.utils.get_words
  • Issue 6570 - Sphinx html_use_smartypants is deprecated as of 1.6 and removed in 1.7 (PR 6575)
  • Issue 6524 - Spyder always open a new instance after updating to 3.2.7 version (PR 6712)
  • Issue 6520 - Strange behavior for Spyder code annotations (PR 6681)
  • Issue 6519 - AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'apply_plugin_settings' (PR 6587)
  • Issue 6518 - AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'load_module' (PR 6597)
  • Issue 6451 - Setting a path containing a single quote (PR 6543)
  • Issue 6445 - ValueError when closing a file whose folder changed name in File Explorer (PR 6569)
  • Issue 6284 - When browsing MultiIndex in Object Explorer, Pandas raises NotImplementedError: isna is not defined for MultiIndex (PR 6710)
  • Issue 5717 - FileNotFoundError generated for template.py (PR 6598)
  • Issue 5696 - Variable Explorer windows don't close when Spyder exits; prevents it from reopening until manually closed (PR 6703)
  • Issue 5680 - Bug: Find and Replace indicate "no matches" when "[", "(", or ")" included in the search string (PR 6526)
  • Issue 5642 - AttributeError when attempting to view dom.minidom.Element object in Variable Explorer (PR 6731)
  • Issue 5466 - How do I move to a new line while I'm in the middle of the current line? (PR 6423)
  • Issue 5299 - pyximport.install() in sitecustomize.py is not a good idea (PR 6607)
  • Issue 4231 - delete (context="editor", name="delete") keyboard shortcut doesn't work (PR 6530)
  • Issue 919 - Saving large workspace on network drive crashes Spyder on Windows (PR 6692)

In this release 23 issues were closed.

Pull Requests Merged

  • PR 6736 - PR: Error report stopgap to make instructions harder to miss
  • PR 6731 - PR: Fix various bugs in Variable Explorer, including an application crash to desktop (6729, 6728, 6727, 5642)
  • PR 6715 - PR: Replace deprecated function in inline CollectionsEditor tests and add recently supported data types
  • PR 6714 - PR: Make several GUI/qtbot tests more reliable by increasing timeouts and tweaking the methods used
  • PR 6713 - PR: Add .pytest_cache to gitignore
  • PR 6712 - PR: Fix new instance validation on Windows. (6524)
  • PR 6710 - PR: Fix NotImplementedError when browsing a MultiIndex in the Collection Editor (6284)
  • PR 6703 - PR: Set parent for Variable Explorer editors so Spyder closes properly (5696)
  • PR 6699 - PR: Change time elapsed calculation to prevent OSError (6682)
  • PR 6692 - PR: Fix bugs in session saving to spydata and improve tests (919, 6689)
  • PR 6681 - PR: Allow TODO check marks with blank line (6520)
  • PR 6667 - PR: Fix typo in utils.introspection.get_words
  • PR 6626 - PR: Pin to a Tornado version less than 5.0 to avoid hangs in our tests
  • PR 6607 - PR: Run Cython files in a dedicated console (5299)
  • PR 6602 - PR: Avoid showing dialogs in IPython console tests to avoid segfaults
  • PR 6598 - PR: Be able to open files in the Editor if no template is found (5717)
  • PR 6597 - PR: Add handling for AttributteError when importing module from path (6518)
  • PR 6587 - PR: Remove ipyconsole and editor attrs from the Help plugin (6519)
  • PR 6575 - PR: Update deprecated Sphinx directive html_use_smartypants (6570)
  • PR 6569 - PR: Allow rename from Explorer to work for directories (6445)
  • PR 6543 - PR: Fix error when setting a path with a single quote (6451)
  • PR 6540 - PR: Delay check whether we are running under pytest until run time
  • PR 6530 - PR: Allow shortcut key for editor/delete to work like Del key (4231)
  • PR 6528 - PR: Restore the previous wording for package versions in error report
  • PR 6527 - PR: Skip some IPython console tests in PyQt4 because they are segfaulting too much
  • PR 6526 - PR: Find/replace - return match counts on unescaped characters (5680)
  • PR 6423 - PR: Add Ctrl+Shift+Enter to enter a new line in the Editor (5466)

In this release 27 pull requests were closed.

Version 3.2.7 (2018-02-25)

New features

Main Window

  • Improve the interface to report errors to Github.

Variable Explorer

  • Enable the display of many more Numpy array types.

Editor

  • Copy text from the search field to the replace one after pressing Tab.

IPython console

  • Make %edit foo.py open foo.py in the Editor on Windows.

Find in Files

  • Remove items from the Search in list when hovering over them and pressing Del.
  • Add a Clear this list option below Select other directory.

Under the hood

  • Demand PyQt less than 5.10 for our wheels.

Issues Closed

In this release 30 issues were closed.

Pull Requests Merged

  • PR 6510 - PR: Update Spanish translation
  • PR 6491 - PR: French translation for 3.2.7 (6484)
  • PR 6487 - PR: Update Japanese translation for 3.2.7
  • PR 6486 - PR: Update Brazilian Portuguese translation
  • PR 6485 - PR: Update Russian translation
  • PR 6478 - PR: Demand PyQt5 less than 5.10 in our wheels (6393)
  • PR 6473 - PR: Skip test_completions_custom_path if jedi version before 0.10.0 (6447)
  • PR 6468 - PR: Update broken matplotlib project URL in install doc
  • PR 6435 - PR: Make projects work on unicode directories (5799)
  • PR 6434 - PR: Handle errors when writing history to disk in the IPython Console (6431)
  • PR 6433 - PR: Fix all test files to be run independently
  • PR 6432 - PR: Xfail test_auto_backend for certain versions of zmq and ipykernel
  • PR 6413 - PR: Add test for file directory change in the Project Explorer. (5601)
  • PR 6409 - PR: Add keywords to desktop files (5316)
  • PR 6408 - PR: Change share/pixmaps to share/icons in setup.py (6188)
  • PR 6383 - PR: Add error handling for the lockfile symlink on Windows (6319)
  • PR 6360 - PR: Harmonized the toolbar of the Outline Explorer with its context menu. (6361)
  • PR 6354 - PR: Add validation for custom interpreter option (4958)
  • PR 6345 - PR: Show Help if closed when opening tutorial to avoid user confusion (6317)
  • PR 6333 - PR: Fix and catch typeerror thrown when from_index is None while moving plugin tab (5813)
  • PR 6331 - PR: Catch any error in the isdefined method of dochelpers (6314)
  • PR 6330 - PR: Handle AttributeError when running code in the IPython Console. (6308)
  • PR 6305 - PR: Catch any error when creating stderr files in the IPython console (6267)
  • PR 6303 - PR: Catch RuntimeError when no kernel is running (6299)
  • PR 6302 - PR: Skip test_tab_copies_find_to_replace on Linux because it fails
  • PR 6301 - PR: Don't add repeated entries to history while on pdb (6295)
  • PR 6298 - PR: Skip test_calltip on Python 3 and PyQt < 5.9 because it's failing there
  • PR 6293 - PR: Custom layouts not working when hexstate is None (6202)
  • PR 6289 - PR: Pin pyqt5 to 5.9.2 on tests because 5.10 is giving segfaults during the collection phase
  • PR 6286 - PR: Install and run window manager in Travis to fix focus issues and unskip now-passing tests
  • PR 6283 - PR: Update Brazilian Portuguese translation
  • PR 6263 - PR: Change to re strings for Deprecation Warning (6254)
  • PR 6262 - PR: Use a temporary config directory to run our tests (6064)
  • PR 6256 - PR: Preserve color scheme on kernel restart (6235)
  • PR 6251 - PR: Update super() call to use Python 2 style call (6245)
  • PR 6244 - PR: Fix %edit magic on Windows (6240)
  • PR 6238 - PR: Fix Profiler error when run is stopped (6220)
  • PR 6237 - PR: Catch OutOfBoundsDatetime errors from pandas (6177)
  • PR 6207 - PR: Use a checkbox in error dialog to dismiss it instead of a button
  • PR 6206 - PR: Fix some completion errors in the Editor and show again no docs message in Help
  • PR 6189 - PR: Fix error when searching text in the Editor in translated interfaces (6187)
  • PR 6180 - PR: Find/replace - Copy search text to replace textbox on tabbing between them (4482)
  • PR 6154 - PR: Add troubleshooting blurb and OS version to issue template and enhance UI
  • PR 6137 - PR: Add Troubleshooting links and blurb to various appropriate places in Spyder and doc
  • PR 6129 - PR: Enable the display of many more numpy array types in the Variable Explorer
  • PR 6095 - PR: Fix 3 bugs and add 4 improvements to Find in Files (5306)
  • PR 6084 - PR: Major overhaul of Readme, contributing and install docs
  • PR 6017 - PR: Differenciate between ), }, and ] when closing brackets
  • PR 5346 - PR: Change error report dialog to enter issue description before submitting it (5247)

In this release 49 pull requests were closed.

Version 3.2.6 (2018-01-09)

New features

Editor

  • Make Shift+Del to cut text if users have some text selected.
  • Make Shift+Ins to paste text.
  • Make Ctrl+PgUp, Ctrl+PgDn and Ctrl+Tab shortcuts configurable.

Variable Explorer

  • Display date/times in human readable format.
  • Disable editing for immutable types (e.g. tuples).

Under the hood

  • Fix installation of wheels with pip.

Bugs fixed

Issues

  • Issue 6169 - Error on Maximize Current Pane
  • Issue 6163 - AttributeError when resetting console namespace
  • Issue 6152 - Not able to change layouts after resetting
  • Issue 6115 - DataFrame Editor raises TypeError when editing any complex type
  • Issue 6114 - Fix errors when entering a value for a cell larger than the max int in Array and Dataframe editors
  • Issue 6098 - Consoles get renamed when moved in the IPython console
  • Issue 6091 - 3.2.5 fails to activate Matplotlib Qt5 backend
  • Issue 6080 - Variable Explorer throws an error instead of displaying contents when attempting to inspect any loaded modules
  • Issue 6076 - Spyder not starting in macOS because pyopengl is present
  • Issue 6075 - Update to 3.2.5 with pip fails for Python 2.7 as it pulls pyqt5
  • Issue 6060 - Spyder crashes upon typing net( in editor
  • Issue 6032 - When comparing a generated and loaded profile, any negative deltas show (actual_value - ?) 1h:60min, not actual value
  • Issue 6003 - Improve how we detect that Spyder is running under Anaconda
  • Issue 5973 - Shift+del should delete line only when empty selection, otherwise clipboard cut
  • Issue 5953 - Tuples can be "edited" in Variable Explorer but changes are discarded
  • Issue 5636 - "ValueError: malformed node or string" when evaluating code that contains Path elements
  • Issue 5477 - Window layout setting error
  • Issue 5426 - Segmentation fault when trying to change keyboard shortcuts in Preferences
  • Issue 5384 - File switcher error
  • Issue 5080 - ValueError: not enough values to unpack in the File Explorer
  • Issue 4842 - Add ability to change Ctrl+PgUp and PgDn shortcuts
  • Issue 4111 - Keyboard shortcut hint is missing from menu item Search/Find in files
  • Issue 3674 - Tab in-between find and replace text boxes

In this release 23 issues were closed

Pull requests

  • PR 6173 - PR: Fix error when trying to maximize plugins that don't have a dock widget
  • PR 6170 - PR: Catch error when resetting console namespace and no kernel_client is available
  • PR 6158 - PR: Skip some tests because they are failing locally or segfaulting
  • PR 6153 - PR: Cannot change windows layout on first start after reset
  • PR 6141 - PR: Add shortcut to Find in Files in Search menu
  • PR 6138 - PR: Mark introspection test slow and re-enable it on certain CIs
  • PR 6135 - PR: Add test to verify that the Automatic backend is working correctly
  • PR 6134 - PR: Run slow tests only in our CIs
  • PR 6132 - PR: Fix TypeError editing any complex val in DataFrameEditor, and bug resulting in bool_s being treated as uneditable
  • PR 6125 - PR: Prevent an error in the FileSwitcher when all tabs are closed in the last focused widget.
  • PR 6123 - PR: Allow tab cycling shortcuts to be configurable in Editor
  • PR 6121 - PR: Patch ipykernel to avoid errors when setting the Qt5 Matplotlib backend
  • PR 6118 - PR: Fix crash and error dialog when triggering OverflowError (too large int) when editing arrays and dataframes
  • PR 6108 - PR: Fix renames when moving IPython console tabs
  • PR 6106 - PR: Fix negative deltas on profiler
  • PR 6104 - PR: Avoid a calltip crash when docstring is None
  • PR 6100 - PR: Fix mime type error detection in the File Explorer
  • PR 6099 - PR: Remove unnecessary flaky from introspection test, minor cleanup
  • PR 6094 - PR: Make Tab key properly switch between find and replace fields
  • PR 6092 - PR: Fix segfault on shortcut preferences when using mouse
  • PR 6090 - PR: Improve how we detect if we are running under Anaconda
  • PR 6089 - PR: Avoid errors when importing pyopengl at startup
  • PR 6088 - PR: Make pyqt5 a wheel dependency only for Python 3
  • PR 6081 - PR: Fix error when attempting to view module contents in CollectionsEditor
  • PR 6062 - PR: Add expected default behavior for Shift+Del and Shift+Ins
  • PR 6057 - PR: Add coverage files and Notepad++ backups to gitignore
  • PR 6044 - PR: Skip several failing tests on Windows and one on a specific CI build
  • PR 6042 - PR: Add test coverage reporting with AppVeyor to Codecov
  • PR 6000 - PR: Display date/times in human readable format in Variable Explorer
  • PR 5992 - PR: Make bullets/numbers/headings more consistent and add Anaconda for Linux in install doc
  • PR 5991 - PR: Properly disable editing in Variable Explorer for values in immutable collections (e.g. tuples)
  • PR 5746 - PR: Manage types that extend str in value_to_display

In this release 32 pull requests were merged

Version 3.2.5 (2017-12-25)

New features

IPython Console

  • Improve kernel startup time.
  • Add option to show kernel elapsed time.
  • Add button and option to remove all user-defined variables.
  • Load %autoreload magic at kernel startup to make changes to modules take effect instantly in the console.
  • Use cloudpickle to serialize/deserialize data between kernels and Spyder.

Variable Explorer

  • Add support for datetime.timedelta objects.

Under the hood

  • Add pyqt5 as a new wheel dependency.
  • Add a new --hide-console option and deprecate --show-console on Windows.

Bugs fixed

Issues

  • Issue 5988 - Update translations for 3.2.5
  • Issue 5978 - Remove 'DMG Installers' option from documentation
  • Issue 5944 - UserWarning: Config option use_jedi not recognized by IPCompleter
  • Issue 5885 - Error when choosing rename option after editing tuple value from Variable explorer.
  • Issue 5877 - Code from one file not updating when called from another if run directly in the console
  • Issue 5791 - "Real-time code style analysis" checkbox in Prefs > Editor > Introspection checks for pep8, not pycodestyle
  • Issue 5776 - Return value of EditorStack.has_filename not checked properly
  • Issue 5759 - IPython console missing features with respect to the old Python console
  • Issue 5755 - AttributeError is thrown when trying to get help of an object
  • Issue 5750 - Improve working directory dropdown box
  • Issue 5748 - TypeError: disconnect() failed between 'sig_prompt_ready' and all its connections
  • Issue 5728 - Missing python doc in help menu
  • Issue 5718 - Problems with backend "TkAgg" on Linux
  • Issue 5707 - NameError when running isdefined
  • Issue 5703 - Save after moving editor tabs with split panes changes wrong files
  • Issue 5661 - Symbol finder gives error message
  • Issue 5640 - Cannot run static code analysis on Spyder 3.2.4
  • Issue 5628 - Error when trying to explore empty numpy array
  • Issue 5591 - Variable explorer broken because of DeprecationWarning in ipykernel
  • Issue 5588 - Close parenthesis when unmatched
  • Issue 5587 - Crash on profiler because of lack of profiler.results
  • Issue 5578 - Can't open preferences anymore as I get an error message
  • Issue 5568 - Runtime Error raised while closing IPython Console instance
  • Issue 5559 - AttributeError: 'InternalShell' object has no attribute 'is_running'
  • Issue 5557 - Keyboard shortcuts reset button cannot be canceled/undone and too easy to trigger
  • Issue 5552 - Explicitly stated default Russian encoding on Windows not recognized
  • Issue 5541 - Automatic graphics backend throws an error
  • Issue 5535 - Can't enable debug mode
  • Issue 5514 - Spyder crashes after typing plt.plot( at the ipython console
  • Issue 5495 - Change --show-console for --hide-console
  • Issue 5494 - "Replace Selection" Erroneously Removing/Interpreting Escape Sequences
  • Issue 5475 - 'Show in external file explorer' on editor menu more than once for split panels
  • Issue 5402 - ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: b''
  • Issue 5386 - Error when replacing "" by "\"
  • Issue 5373 - Add Clear button to (find) entry boxes
  • Issue 5360 - Don't set current working directory for external kernels
  • Issue 5218 - Error when drag and drop file from zip
  • Issue 5057 - Fast file switch and fast symbol search do not work properly if the editor is splitted
  • Issue 5036 - Exploring variables in debugging mode is giving focus to the Editor
  • Issue 4186 - Spyder always opens a new instance
  • Issue 3612 - Variable explorer should list datetime.timedelta variables
  • Issue 3242 - Spyder is not installing the PyQt5 wheel when using pip
  • Issue 2883 - Outline explorer doesn't work with second Editor window
  • Issue 2179 - Breakpoint doesn't appear in gui (red circle) but is listed in Debug > Breakpoints > List breakpoints
  • Issue 1492 - There should be a way to donate money to support the project

In this release 45 issues were closed

Pull requests

  • PR 6005 - PR: Update Japanese translation for 3.2.5
  • PR 6002 - PR: Update French translation for 3.2.5
  • PR 5997 - PR: Update Spanish translations for 3.2.5
  • PR 5995 - PR: Update Russian translation for 3.2.5
  • PR 5987 - PR: Load %autoreload magic at kernel startup
  • PR 5979 - PR: Remove/update outdated refs to Mac OS X, Mac DMG installers and Continuum.io
  • PR 5952 - PR: Skip a test that started to fail on Windows and Python 2
  • PR 5950 - PR: Disable renames for list, set and tuple in the Variable Explorer
  • PR 5902 - PR: Make tabs drag behavior in the IPython console to be the same as the Editor one
  • PR 5878 - PR: Several improvements to the IPython console
  • PR 5865 - PR: Fix missing documentation links
  • PR 5862 - PR: Add PyQt5 as a new wheel dependency
  • PR 5792 - PR: Change pep8 check_executable for pycodestyle.
  • PR 5784 - PR: Change for file save on split editor when tabs are moved
  • PR 5780 - PR: Disable smartpants quotes in Sphinx to prevent crash with MathJax
  • PR 5778 - PR: Catch AttributeError while using the Help plugin
  • PR 5777 - PR: Adjust calls to use has_filenames return value of None
  • PR 5766 - PR: Simplify how pyopengl is declared in setup.py
  • PR 5762 - PR: Add a tooltip showing the full path of highlighted item in the working directory dropdown box
  • PR 5758 - PR: Improve how Matplotlib backend is set in the IPython console
  • PR 5752 - PR: Catch TypeError while executing code instructions in the IPython console
  • PR 5742 - PR: Prevent Editor dockwidget to become visible when clicking on the outline explorer if the Editor is in a separate window
  • PR 5731 - PR: Skip test_load_kernel_file in PyQt4 because it segfaults too much
  • PR 5714 - PR: Catch NameError in isdefined
  • PR 5694 - PR: Add validation for mimedata2url in Editor's dragEnterEvent
  • PR 5688 - PR: Ignore warning generated by ipykernel.datapub
  • PR 5674 - PR: Skip test_issue_4066 in our CIs with PyQt >= 5.9
  • PR 5666 - PR: Set focus for filter line when doing symbol search
  • PR 5662 - PR: Handle 3d empty numpy arrays
  • PR 5646 - PR: Change position of data loading to prevent not calling validation in the Pylint plugin
  • PR 5635 - PR: Change default behavior of --show-console option
  • PR 5634 - PR: Catch not found file error when loading profiler results.
  • PR 5632 - PR: Skip some dataframe tests on Linux
  • PR 5624 - PR: Add validation for attribute 'is_running' in the Help plugin
  • PR 5619 - PR: Support datetime.timedelta in variable explorer
  • PR 5618 - PR: Catch search regexp error while doing replace/find
  • PR 5614 - PR: Better feedback for regexp errors in find/replace
  • PR 5604 - PR: Do not overwrite unmatched braces
  • PR 5585 - PR: Fix ValueError when switching Python interpreters
  • PR 5584 - PR: Fix typo in Solarized color schemes.
  • PR 5577 - PR: Add confirmation message to reset shortcuts.
  • PR 5576 - PR: Add handling for RuntimeError while closing an IPython console instance.
  • PR 5575 - PR: Fix syncing of line number and plugin list for breakpoints and add unit tests.
  • PR 5560 - PR: Make clear line shortcut configurable in the IPython console
  • PR 5555 - PR: Don't unescape control characteres in replace in selection
  • PR 5553 - PR: Add cp1251 (default Russian) encoding on Windows to be recognized by the Editor
  • PR 5538 - PR: Reduce row height in dependencies dialog
  • PR 5537 - PR: Add clear button to find comboboxes
  • PR 5536 - PR: Fix bootstrap.py --debug
  • PR 5528 - PR: Add validation to not publish pdb_state after getting values of variables
  • PR 5476 - PR: Fix EditorSplitter menu_actions and add test.
  • PR 5472 - PR: Don't rely on process name when detecting a previous instance
  • PR 5341 - PR: Trade ipykernel.serialize for cloudpickle and remove use of publish_data
  • PR 5221 - PR: Make the fileswitcher aware of split editorstacks

In this release 54 pull requests were merged

Version 3.2.4 (2017-10-18)

New features

  • Add compatibility with Jedi 0.11
  • Display lists with all types of elements in the Variable Explorer.

Bugs fixed

Issues

  • Issue 5416 - Cannot get past splash screen
  • Issue 5361 - Sorting by column in variable explorer
  • Issue 5330 - Error in variable explorer for dicts with mixed-type keys
  • Issue 5324 - Spyder crashes because of race condition in ZMQ
  • Issue 5317 - Error when opening a new project
  • Issue 5313 - Not all lists are supported by the variable explorer
  • Issue 5305 - Error when pressing Ctrl+C in the terminal where Spyder was started
  • Issue 5296 - Increase kernel_client.hb_channel.time_to_dead even more
  • Issue 5294 - Variable Explorer: sort by values not working
  • Issue 5289 - Checking/Unchecking path in the pathmanager is not working as expected in the IPython console
  • Issue 5280 - Enter in IPython console inserts new line when big Dataframes are in namespace
  • Issue 5271 - Problem when closing files with split editors whose tabs order are not synced.
  • Issue 5254 - Variable explorer crash when viewing numpy structured array
  • Issue 5253 - Profiler incorrectly detects recursion
  • Issue 5232 - Variable explorer raise error when try to sort dict by values
  • Issue 5226 - error when closing a file
  • Issue 5225 - Error when trying to sort dataframe with duplicate columns
  • Issue 5213 - Error when Selecting Fig from Variable Explorer
  • Issue 5202 - In ipdb, the up and down keys have a strange behaviour
  • Issue 5200 - pdb.pm() raises an Error
  • Issue 5183 - Issues with recognizing directory renaming
  • Issue 5099 - Closing last open file while being in non-existing working dir raises exception
  • Issue 5053 - AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'execute'
  • Issue 5003 - Error when trying to edit elements of a float numpy array in variable explorer
  • Issue 4856 - Some issues with dedicated consoles
  • Issue 4156 - "Save as" dialog extremely slow

In this release 26 issues were closed

Pull requests

  • PR 5467 - PR: Add an error message when sorting a dataframe on categorical dtypes
  • PR 5457 - PR: Make consoles to start without an stderr file
  • PR 5450 - PR: Update minimal QtPy required version
  • PR 5445 - PR: Skip a Matplotlib test in PyQt4 because it's failing too much
  • PR 5392 - PR: Backport PR 5159
  • PR 5389 - PR: Fix crashing of the fileswitcher after closing the last file of the Editor.
  • PR 5388 - PR: Change spyderproject for spyproject in some missing places.
  • PR 5358 - PR: Add an error message when failing to serialize an object
  • PR 5357 - PR: Skip some tests to prevent recurrent failures and segfaults
  • PR 5356 - PR: Prevent a race condition with ZMQ during startup
  • PR 5342 - PR: Fix history browsing while debugging
  • PR 5340 - PR: Add handling for OSError's when changing directories.
  • PR 5337 - PR: Display all lists in the variable explorer
  • PR 5336 - PR: Add a safe getcwd function to handle errors when the current working was deleted
  • PR 5327 - PR: Show error when trying to sort dataframe with duplicate columns
  • PR 5320 - PR: Fix editing floats in array editor
  • PR 5311 - PR: Sync correctly the closing of files in multiple editorstacks.
  • PR 5301 - PR: Wait until console is ready before executing code for dedicated consoles
  • PR 5298 - PR: Fix some execution delays in the IPython console
  • PR 5297 - PR: A couple of fixes for Jedi 0.11
  • PR 5295 - PR: Enable sorting by values in Variable Explorer
  • PR 5290 - PR: Prevent unchecked paths in the pathmanager to be added to the IPython console sys.path
  • PR 5272 - PR: Fix recursion error in profiler
  • PR 5259 - PR: Prevent hard crash when inspecting certain structured arrays
  • PR 5246 - PR: Don't show errors when kernel_client is None
  • PR 5245 - PR: Fix some issues with the Editor Save dialog
  • PR 5244 - PR: Apply window style only if it's not None
  • PR 5234 - PR: Handle error when using deepcopy in the collections editor.
  • PR 5229 - PR: Editor historystack improvements
  • PR 5204 - PR: Fix calling pdb.pm() in a console

In this release 30 pull requests were merged

Version 3.2.3 (2017-09-11)

New features

  • Add a button to the Variable Explorer to remove all variables at once.

Bugs fixed

Issues

  • Issue 5167 - AttributeError when using outline and split code
  • Issue 5165 - 'Execute in external system terminal' unwantedly uses python2 on ubuntu16.04
  • Issue 5158 - AttributeError: 'super' object has no attribute '_handle_error' in IPython console
  • Issue 5157 - Renaming file containing folders yields IndexError.
  • Issue 5144 - pip created executable name changes between versions
  • Issue 5114 - KeyboardInterrupt error in waitingspinner
  • Issue 4680 - Debug: "Run Current Line" past the end of a script doesn't exit the debugger
  • Issue 4313 - "unblockcomment" incompatible with "automatically remove trailing spaces"
  • Issue 3390 - RuntimeError when using outline and split code editor
  • Issue 313 - Variable Explorer: Add a button to remove all variables at once

In this release 10 issues were closed

Pull requests

  • PR 5181 - PR: Use get_python_executable to run in external terminals
  • PR 5166 - PR: Fix RuntimeError and AttributeError when using outline and split code editor
  • PR 5164 - PR: Stop creating universal wheels
  • PR 5163 - PR: Add handling for IndexError in the Editor when renaming folder containing file
  • PR 5162 - PR: Don't use super in _handle_error method of IPython console
  • PR 5129 - PR: Avoid KeyboardInterrupt to raise an error in waitingspinner
  • PR 5089 - PR: Exit the debugger if we are about to enter to sitecustomize.py
  • PR 5017 - PR: Fix unblock comments
  • PR 4885 - PR: Add a button in the Variable Explorer toolbar to reset namespace

In this release 9 pull requests were merged

Version 3.2.2 (2017-09-05)

New features

  • Add a button to Find in Files to make searches case sensitive.
  • Extend Find in Files to select other search directories.
  • Add an option to set cursor blinking speed in miliseconds in Preferences > General > Interface > Cursor blinking.
  • Add checkboxes to PYTHONPATH manager to enable/disable paths.
  • Show the number of matches in the Find/Replace widget.

Bugs fixed

Issues

  • Issue 5111 - Unable to save file in Python
  • Issue 5074 - Editor - Cannot close a (vertical) split after open
  • Issue 5040 - Word operators do not have a color style in the IPython console
  • Issue 5026 - Increase the limit of DPI setting for IPython inline graphics
  • Issue 5019 - IPython consoles can't start if Spyder temp directory is missing
  • Issue 5014 - BUG: Error editing element of numpy array in variable explorer
  • Issue 4989 - Spyder Issue when using ctrl+P : goto line
  • Issue 4981 - Unable to start Array builder using keyboard shortcut
  • Issue 4970 - Console slow to close when debugging
  • Issue 4953 - Consistent layout in different panes
  • Issue 4934 - "Replace selection" adds "." anytime the string to be added contains "."
  • Issue 4921 - IPython: Run Code at Startup - Magics
  • Issue 4881 - Force-stop does not work on hanged progress.
  • Issue 4879 - Run Configuration per file: Working Directory not remembered
  • Issue 4851 - Error when trying to load third-party plugins
  • Issue 4844 - Pressing Ctrl+Tab wanting to switch to another tab raises an IndexError
  • Issue 4839 - Make Spyder remember tab order
  • Issue 4836 - Kernels fail to start because they can't create stderr files in non-ascii accounts on Windows
  • Issue 4829 - SPYDER_DEBUG=3 is failing on Windows
  • Issue 4819 - Find in Files should have ignore case flag
  • Issue 4814 - Extend Find in Files to select other directories
  • Issue 4684 - Array editor: Change default float formatter from %.3f to %.6g
  • Issue 4681 - Debug: If a breakpoint is on the first line of a script the whole script runs
  • Issue 4504 - Exceptions swallow the prompt!
  • Issue 4444 - Add icon to mac dock when running with bootstrap
  • Issue 4410 - Editor autocompletion and help extraction not working in Spyder 3.1.4
  • Issue 4277 - Option to Disable Blinking Cursor
  • Issue 4221 - Spyder stops executing commands if Variable explorer shows complicated objects
  • Issue 4001 - Ctrl+F should show the number of appearances in the file as #current/#total
  • Issue 3529 - Spyder 3 opens a command prompt window when running certain commands
  • Issue 1105 - Add the possibility to disable entries in the PYTHONPATH manager

In this release 31 issues were closed

Pull requests

  • PR 5128 - PR: Skip package names that end in certain suffixes when loading third-party plugins
  • PR 5125 - PR: Correctly move to first breakpoint after entering debugging
  • PR 5118 - PR: Fix error when creating some error messagebox
  • PR 5110 - PR: Add handling for non existing indexes in IPython Console clients
  • PR 5109 - PR: Add more handling to actions with reference deleted
  • PR 5094 - PR: Deactivate editor actions when Tab Swither is shown
  • PR 5093 - PR: Skip some tests in our CIs
  • PR 5086 - PR: Don't run continue when starting debug if there is a breakpoint in the first line with code.
  • PR 5079 - PR: Create Spyder TEMPDIR if it does not exist when creating new consoles
  • PR 5078 - PR: Fix cwd issues in the "Run > Configuration per file" dialog
  • PR 5069 - PR: Increase waiting time and repetitions for tests that enter debugging
  • PR 5064 - PR: Fix 1D Numpy arrays edition in the Variable Explorer
  • PR 5051 - PR: Make inactive paths to be ignored when Spyder's path list is synchronized with PYTHONPATH on Windows
  • PR 5048 - PR: Increase dpi limit of inline plots
  • PR 5045 - PR: Allow values with '%' in config system
  • PR 5042 - PR: Add a style for word operator tokens in the IPython pygments dictionary
  • PR 5028 - PR: Make value_to_display more robust
  • PR 5027 - PR: Increase tries for a couple of flaky tests
  • PR 5013 - PR: Add test with non-ascii directory for consoles stderr file
  • PR 5008 - PR: Fix setting SPYDER_DEBUG variable on Windows
  • PR 4993 - PR: Fix handling of line count in the fileswitcher
  • PR 4992 - PR: Prevent subprocess.Popen calls to create visible consoles on Windows.
  • PR 4991 - PR: Remove regex escape characters from replacement string on the Find/Replace widget
  • PR 4990 - PR: Fix shortcut to make array builders appear in the IPython Console
  • PR 4978 - PR: Minor fixes in Find in Files
  • PR 4971 - PR: Stop console before closing it
  • PR 4962 - PR: Send Spyder python path to introspection plugins
  • PR 4961 - PR: Reduce row height in shortcut dialog
  • PR 4957 - PR: Clean Spyder config before re-running our tests
  • PR 4955 - PR: Change format in array and dataframe editors
  • PR 4954 - PR: Unify layout for panes and widgets
  • PR 4914 - PR: Display prompt after errors
  • PR 4880 - PR: Preserve order when saving/loading files from a project.
  • PR 4822 - PR: Extend Find in Files to select other search directories
  • PR 4820 - PR: Add a button to Find in Files to make searches case sensitive
  • PR 4758 - PR: Add an option to set cursor blinking speed in miliseconds
  • PR 4756 - PR: Add checkboxes to PYTHONPATH manager to enable/disable paths
  • PR 4443 - PR: Add icon earlier when running application
  • PR 4060 - PR: Show the number of matches in the Find/Replace widget

In this release 39 pull requests were merged

Version 3.2.1 (2017-08-13)

Bugs fixed

Issues

  • Issue 4943 - Unicode symbols are not highlighted in the Editor
  • Issue 4922 - Static code analysis produces error when running with empty filename
  • Issue 4873 - Error when trying to get a very large namespace view from the kernel
  • Issue 4862 - File execution fails with AttributeError: _Feature instance has no attribute 'len'
  • Issue 4843 - Error when attempting to close a split panel in the editor window
  • Issue 4841 - Setting QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS is not working as expected
  • Issue 4831 - Error when rearranging tabs and multiple Editors
  • Issue 4824 - Error when trying to print source code - AttributeError: 'QPrintDialog' object has no attribute 'addEnabledOption'
  • Issue 4816 - Error when trying to change to non-ascii directories in the Working Directory toolbar
  • Issue 4811 - Editor line number font size does not increase when zooming on windows
  • Issue 4810 - Spyder crashes when attempting to define function named setup in IPython console
  • Issue 4806 - Change color of matched parens in the IPython console
  • Issue 4797 - Remove scientific_startup.py
  • Issue 4769 - Exception raised when running file from project explorer
  • Issue 4763 - In the Editor, tab does not switch when ctrl is released and focus remains on the tab_switcher
  • Issue 4754 - Shifting multiple lines of code with ctrl + cmd + down-arrow-key doesn't work properly after first shift
  • Issue 4734 - High DPI scaling messes up placement of breakpoint red circles
  • Issue 4453 - Crash when opened file is renamed/deleted outside Spyder
  • Issue 4442 - Segfault when closing with temporary file open
  • Issue 4304 - EOLs incorrectly switch from LF to CRLF on split editor panes
  • Issue 4039 - Sorting order of profiler is wrong
  • Issue 3166 - Editor line numbers dissappear

In this release 22 issues were closed

Pull requests

  • PR 4949 - PR: Add basic pep8speaks config file.
  • PR 4946 - PR: Fix error when the selecting an unicode word
  • PR 4928 - PR: Check that combobox text is not empty string before emiting valid signal
  • PR 4918 - PR: Handle truncated dictionary of namespace view from the kernel
  • PR 4899 - PR: Remove capture_dir_change method of IPython console shell widget
  • PR 4875 - PR: Separate the installation of Qt from running our tests in Travis
  • PR 4870 - PR: Save a reference to messagebox in EditorStack to avoid memory to be freed.
  • PR 4869 - PR: Omit editor split menu option if its reference was deleted
  • PR 4866 - PR: Remove TypeError and AttributeError exceptions from SpyderKernel
  • PR 4864 - PR: Fix Run option in File and Project explorers
  • PR 4863 - PR: Fix sorting in Profiler
  • PR 4861 - PR: Install qtpy and qtconsole from Github when testing
  • PR 4850 - PR: Update only current editor stack when moving tabs.
  • PR 4849 - PR: Prevent importing packages that raise SystemExit exceptions when verifying if an object is defined
  • PR 4847 - PR: Use Editor font to paint line numbers on all platforms
  • PR 4846 - PR: Use QT_SCALE_FACTOR when users set only one scale factor
  • PR 4845 - PR: Set eol_chars in cloned editor on split editor panes
  • PR 4835 - PR: Delete print test because it segfaults too frequently
  • PR 4830 - PR: Fix error when printing source code
  • PR 4828 - PR: Fix error when using non-ascii current directory to run code
  • PR 4813 - PR: Make highlighting colors in the IPython Console match those used in the Spyder Editor
  • PR 4799 - PR: Delete scientific_startup.py
  • PR 4774 - PR: Fix shifting code selection issues in the Editor
  • PR 4764 - PR: Fix tab does not switch when ctrl is released issue
  • PR 4759 - PR: Fix enable/disable spinbox bug in Editor preferences panel
  • PR 4749 - PR: Add icon to MessageCheckBox while avoiding unclickable issue
  • PR 4738 - PR: Update pixmap height calculation
  • PR 4733 - PR: Avoid visible_blocks to be empty when first visible block is wrapped

In this release 28 pull requests were merged

Version 3.2 (2017-07-24)

New features

Python Console

  • Remove it for all operating systems. For an explanation, please see here.

Main Window

  • Add a dialog to quickly view all keyboard shortcuts defined in Spyder. It can be accessed in the Help > Shortcuts Summary menu or using the Meta+F1 shortcut.
  • Add an option to set a custom screen resolution scale factor. This option is available in Preferences > Appearance > Screen resolution.
  • Show Spyder internal errors in a special dialog to ease submitting them to Github.

Editor

  • Add the ability to reorganize tabs by drag and drop.
  • Add option to only replace in a selection.
  • Add Ctrl+Up and Ctrl+Down shortcuts to move to the next/previous cell, respectively.
  • Add Alt+Enter shortcut to re-run the last cell.
  • Add support to run Cython files from the Editor (i.e. by simply pressing F5).
  • Add syntax highlighting support for Markdown files.
  • Add a tab switcher dialog to navigate files in most recently used order. This dialog is activated with Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab to go in forward or backward order, respectively.
  • Make Shift+Enter search text backwards in the find/replace widget.
  • Add Shift+Del shortcut to delete lines.
  • Add Ctrl+] and Ctrl+[ shortcuts to indent/unindent text, respectively.
  • Add a Save copy as action.
  • Add a context menu entry to show the selected file in the operating system file explorer.
  • Apply smart indentation rules to Python files only. For non-Python files, the Editor will preserve the indentation level of the previous line.

IPython Console

  • Several improvements to its debugger:
    • Restore the ability to inspect variables using the Variable Explorer.
    • Make plotting work with a new %plot magic, but only using the inline backend (e.g. %plot plt.plot(range(10))).
    • Add history browsing with the Up and Down arrow keys.
    • Make the Clear console and Reset keyboard shortcuts to work.
    • Show plots from the Variable Explorer.
    • Change the current working directory using the Working Directory toolbar.
    • Use Ctrl+Shift+C to copy text.
  • Add the possibility to run a file in the same (dedicated) console all the time.
  • Allow to rename consoles by doing a double-click on their tabs and setting a new name.
  • Make drag and drop of its tabs to work.
  • Make the %cd magic to change the current working directory of the File Explorer and Working Directory toolbar.
  • Add menu entries to show environment variables and sys.path contents for each console.
  • Make it use the same color scheme of the Editor.
  • Automatically load the Cython extension if Cython is installed.

Find in Files

  • Add options to search on the current file, project or working directory.
  • Display results as search takes place.
  • Allow to order results alphabetically.
  • Add a spinner as indicator of a search in progress.
  • Simplify visualization of results.
  • Remove previous search results when a new search takes place.
  • Improve file and string encoding to bypass and correct errors associated with codification.
  • Inform users if search regexp patterns are incorrect.
  • Remove unused search options.
  • Omit binary files during a search.

File Explorer

  • Add an option to show the selected file in the operating system file explorer.
  • Show icons for different file types (pdf, image, video, audio, compressed and MS Office files).
  • Make it change the current working directory of the active console when changing directories on it.

Working Directory toolbar

  • Rename it to Current working directory (it was Global working directory).
  • Simplify its options to make them more understandable.
  • Make it show the working directory of the active IPython console and the current directory in the File Explorer.

Preferences

  • Prevent assignment of Shift+<single key> shortcuts because they can't be used by Qt applications unless they are hard-coded in the application itself.

Under the hood

  • Use pycodestyle package instead of pep8 to do style analysis.
  • Add pyopengl as a new dependency to our pip wheels on Linux to prevent crashes related to OpenGL in PyQt 5.7+.
  • Demand rope 0.10.5+ in our wheels because it supports Python 2 and 3 with the same codebase.

Bugs fixed

Issues

  • Issue 4730 - Update translations for 3.2
  • Issue 4725 - RuntimeError when closing spyder
  • Issue 4722 - Indentation changes after zoom-in
  • Issue 4721 - Add tests for dedicated consoles and run config options
  • Issue 4698 - Fancy exception handler does not show exception
  • Issue 4694 - Disambiguate dedicated IPython consoles
  • Issue 4693 - Change "Path" option to "Current working directory" in Find in Files
  • Issue 4692 - Make file switcher to have a minimal width
  • Issue 4679 - Add IPython to Help > Dependencies
  • Issue 4665 - Don't register external plugins if check_compatibility fails
  • Issue 4664 - Detect external Spyder kernels
  • Issue 4663 - Inspecting Numpy bool arrays in Var. Explorer uses deprecated '-' operator in Numpy
  • Issue 4648 - File switcher is changing size when changing from symbols to files
  • Issue 4646 - Setting Numpy threshold to nan in console makes the Variable Explorer really slow
  • Issue 4641 - Add a check_compatibility method to PluginMixin
  • Issue 4636 - Focus doesn't go to the selected entry in file switcher when filtering
  • Issue 4632 - Spyder fails to start because of UnicodeDecodeError when creating kernel spec
  • Issue 4619 - Scroll down/up scrolls down twice
  • Issue 4615 - Lists with None elements don't appear in the Variable Explorer
  • Issue 4611 - Goto previous cell behaviour is different than other IDEs
  • Issue 4597 - Editors not gaining focus when changing by tab click
  • Issue 4596 - Even more improvements to Find in Files
  • Issue 4595 - Editor hangs when trying to open Spyder's own CHANGELOG.md file
  • Issue 4592 - Add useful commands for working with branches to Contributing Guide
  • Issue 4584 - Tips of the introductory tour pop up when window moved or resized
  • Issue 4581 - Multiple whitespaces as a separator in variable explorer
  • Issue 4575 - Make a unique instance of the file switcher
  • Issue 4553 - Spyder hangs after Introduction Tour
  • Issue 4526 - Error in syntaxhighlighting of decorators
  • Issue 4524 - Remove the Python console
  • Issue 4520 - Line is not being highlighted in cells
  • Issue 4496 - Shift+Space shortcut doesn't work
  • Issue 4490 - More Find in Files improvements
  • Issue 4487 - spyder_io_hdf5 plugin not available
  • Issue 4481 - Auto-indent Incorrect following line starting with return as part of variable name.
  • Issue 4475 - Inserting a line-break in code/comment with parenthesis deletes part of the code/comment
  • Issue 4452 - Add more annotation keywords to the Editor (e.g. BUG, OPTIMIZE, etc)
  • Issue 4421 - Step-by-step debugging with IPython console doesn't work in 3.1.4.
  • Issue 4418 - No option for dedicated IPython console
  • Issue 4411 - Part of file switcher always outside of screen when full-screen
  • Issue 4403 - Debugging hangs in iPython console
  • Issue 4316 - Spyder looks terrible on a very high resolution screen
  • Issue 4307 - Additional shortcuts are making the outline explorer to appear
  • Issue 4285 - Move to support only Rope 0.10.5+
  • Issue 4282 - Create a flaky conda package on conda-forge and move it to the spyder-ide channel
  • Issue 4268 - QKeySequence not defined in the arrayeditor
  • Issue 4259 - Display file path of file in the Editor title again
  • Issue 4257 - Numpy array copy format
  • Issue 4216 - Delete unused file formlayout.py
  • Issue 4214 - Spyder debugger doesn't terminate
  • Issue 4197 - Find in Files not working in 3.1.3
  • Issue 4157 - Implement simple indentation fon non-python files
  • Issue 4134 - Non-ascii characters not displayed correctly in Find in files
  • Issue 4132 - Spyder crashes because of socket initialization errors on Windows
  • Issue 4061 - Find occurrences backwards with Shift + Enter (inside find or find/replace mode)
  • Issue 4020 - Add "run selection" icon
  • Issue 4016 - save file doesn't work on new files unless you change them
  • Issue 4013 - Variable Explorer and Editor are not updated when breakpoints are placed in submodules
  • Issue 4010 - Pressing Enter in the "Replace with" entry of Find/Replace should replace the currently selected text
  • Issue 3986 - Write additional information on 3.1, 3.x and master branches and how to do bugfixes
  • Issue 3959 - Shortcut feature request: re-run the previous cell
  • Issue 3945 - Cannot change local variables in debug mode
  • Issue 3940 - Spyder crashes when pressing ctrl-g in editor to go to definition
  • Issue 3825 - Improve icons in the File explorer
  • Issue 3771 - Error when hit 'run file' button in debug mode
  • Issue 3711 - Variable Explorer is not showing variables in debug mode
  • Issue 3673 - Error when trying to view the contents of a binary string in the Variable Explorer for Python 2
  • Issue 3573 - Create requirements file to ease introduction to development and testing
  • Issue 3555 - Spyder 3 can't inspect values through the variable explorer while debugging
  • Issue 3406 - Add Ctrl+] and Ctrl+[ as indent and unindent shortcuts
  • Issue 3405 - Cannot create Shift+Del as a shortcut for delete line
  • Issue 3332 - Spyder can't start because of problems with OpenGL and PyQt5
  • Issue 3275 - Print all keyboard shortcuts to cheatset
  • Issue 3257 - The distinction between "working directory for newly opened consoles" and "working directory for current console" is hard to understand
  • Issue 3197 - Use pycodestyle instead of pep8
  • Issue 2963 - Find in files results disappear when search path loses focus
  • Issue 2850 - Adapt the Find in Files so results display is flat, like ACK
  • Issue 2730 - Find in files default include and exclude values should be empty!
  • Issue 2628 - Show current file in file browser
  • Issue 2238 - Preserve size in status bar widgets
  • Issue 2122 - QSyntaxHighlighter and Pygments do not properly interoperate, leading to occasional mis-highlighting
  • Issue 2030 - Some inconsistencies about the use of "working directories"
  • Issue 2020 - ipdb freezes and doesn't allow to debug properly
  • Issue 1977 - Error in Variable explorer when modifying nested objects in wrong order
  • Issue 1962 - Allow to rename IPython consoles
  • Issue 1833 - Provide move to next/previous cell shortcut
  • Issue 1787 - Debugger not responding after copying text from IPython Console
  • Issue 1717 - Spyder hangs when calling pdb.set_trace() in class definition
  • Issue 1706 - Breakpoints on continued lines (with \ character) don't work
  • Issue 1555 - Find in Files unusable
  • Issue 1525 - Show internal errors in a QMessageBox instead of poping up the Internal Console
  • Issue 1352 - Keybord short-cut to switch between last open files
  • Issue 1170 - File tabs have unconventional behaviour
  • Issue 1049 - Update the cwd name on the working directory toolbar when changing focus between consoles
  • Issue 916 - Add color schemes to IPython console
  • Issue 564 - Editor: drag n' drop (movable) tabs
  • Issue 358 - Find/Replace widget: add option to find/replace in selection only
  • Issue 43 - Make Ctrl+Tab to navigate between tabs in Most Recently Used (MRU) order

In this release 98 issues were closed

Pull requests

  • PR 4791 - PR: Update Spanish translations for 3.2
  • PR 4785 - PR: Prevent Jedi and Rope to open two previously unopened files simultaneously
  • PR 4782 - PR: Update Russian translation for 3.2
  • PR 4765 - PR: Prevent potential problems when importing third-party modules
  • PR 4755 - PR: Update French translation for 3.2
  • PR 4752 - PR: Remove startup options of working directory plugin
  • PR 4750 - PR: Don't set pandas.core.common.in_qtconsole anymore
  • PR 4746 - PR: Update Japanese translation
  • PR 4737 - PR: Add mdw as markdown extension.
  • PR 4729 - PR: Add tests for dedicated consoles and runconfig options
  • PR 4726 - PR: Fix error when closing window and we ask users if they want to close it or not
  • PR 4723 - PR: Update tabwidth when changing zoom in Editor.
  • PR 4719 - PR: Fix running in dedicated consoles and other UI fixes
  • PR 4713 - PR: Remove all code related to the Python console
  • PR 4711 - PR: Show complete exception (not only the traceback) in error QMessageBox.
  • PR 4706 - PR: Revert PR #4651
  • PR 4700 - PR: Add disambiguation for dedicated IPython consoles
  • PR 4699 - PR: Set width of file switcher according to main window width
  • PR 4696 - PR: Rename "Path" label to "Current working directory" in Find in Files
  • PR 4691 - PR: Implement dedicated IPython consoles
  • PR 4682 - PR: Added IPython >= 4.0 as a dependency
  • PR 4670 - PR: Add detection of external Spyder kernels
  • PR 4667 - PR: Update ArrayEditor to correct deprecated Numpy operator
  • PR 4666 - PR: Don't register external plugins if check_compatibility fails
  • PR 4661 - PR: Fix fileswitcher size during its setup
  • PR 4651 - PR: Avoid comments to generate pep8 warnings
  • PR 4647 - PR: Set Numpy threshold every time we run value_to_display
  • PR 4644 - PR: Add a check to verify compatibility to plugins
  • PR 4638 - PR: Implement "Replace in selection" in the Editor
  • PR 4637 - PR: Give focus to the right entry in the file switcher
  • PR 4634 - PR: Fix several issues about the Working Directory toolbar
  • PR 4633 - PR: Make test_calltip to time out to avoid long waiting times in Appveyor
  • PR 4631 - PR: Fix error when calling keyPressEvent in keyReleaseEvent in CodeEditor
  • PR 4630 - PR: Move Spyder kernel spec to its own file
  • PR 4628 - PR: Backport PR #4627
  • PR 4626 - PR: Create a unique instance of the file switcher attached to the main window
  • PR 4621 - PR: Add git command for changing base branch to Contributing guide
  • PR 4616 - PR: Display collections with None values in the Variable Explorer
  • PR 4613 - PR: Move modules test to Circle and all pytest's to Travis
  • PR 4612 - PR: Add same behaviour for go to previous cell as the one in Matlab
  • PR 4607 - PR: Fix unwanted scrolling when selecting tabs
  • PR 4603 - PR: Add break condition to Markdown syntax highlighter loop
  • PR 4602 - PR: Update Rope to 0.10.5+
  • PR 4601 - PR: Add pyopengl to setup.py to fix errors with some Nvidia/Intel drivers
  • PR 4599 - PR: More find in files improvements
  • PR 4598 - PR: Add more file type icons to File Explorer
  • PR 4585 - PR: Prevent hangs and showing tips after tour
  • PR 4583 - PR: Add Whitespace option in the import wizard
  • PR 4579 - PR: Return value of fix_indentation_smart in fix_indentation
  • PR 4573 - PR: Invert indent shortcuts
  • PR 4567 - PR: Add indentation shortcuts and simple indentation for non-Python files
  • PR 4562 - PR: Add actions to show sys.path and environment variables contents to the IPython console
  • PR 4561 - PR: Use Python module to launch pylint
  • PR 4558 - PR: Backport PR 4538
  • PR 4549 - PR: Stop loading the Python console
  • PR 4544 - PR: Fix font size for the Help plugin
  • PR 4541 - PR: Remove connection between the Editor and the Python console
  • PR 4539 - PR: Make Shift+Enter search backwards in Find and Replace widget
  • PR 4537 - PR: Find in Files style and UI improvements
  • PR 4536 - PR: Hide the Python console at startup until we completely remove it
  • PR 4535 - PR: Change Editor title to display file path again
  • PR 4534 - PR: Force current cell to be before of current line in extra_selections
  • PR 4533 - PR: Remove connection between Help and the Python Console
  • PR 4532 - PR: Delete extra shortcut for the Outline Explorer
  • PR 4528 - PR: Skip test_values_dbg because it times out too much
  • PR 4527 - PR: Fix error in decorators regex in syntaxhighlighter.
  • PR 4525 - PR: Remove connection between the Variable Explorer and the Python console
  • PR 4523 - PR: Add "Save copy as..." to file menu
  • PR 4522 - PR: Handle socket creation errors during start up
  • PR 4521 - PR: Register spyder_io plugins correctly
  • PR 4511 - PR: Fix error in message about reseting Spyder configuration
  • PR 4507 - PR: Restore Python 3.6 tests in AppVeyor and add Python 3.5 as well
  • PR 4500 - PR: Move some tests and coveralls to Travis
  • PR 4486 - PR: Some indentation fixes
  • PR 4485 - PR: Fix indentation error when a line starts with return but it's not a return statement
  • PR 4477 - PR: Disable tab with setting when indent chars are spaces.
  • PR 4465 - PR: Complete annotation types in Preferences and Source toolbox
  • PR 4456 - PR: Add more regular code annotation types
  • PR 4454 - PR: Add an option to set a custom HiDPI scale factor
  • PR 4449 - PR: Fix a couple of errors in our tests after Pandas 0.20 was released
  • PR 4448 - PR: Fix a few typos in the FR locale file
  • PR 4414 - PR: Implement go to previous/next cell shortcuts
  • PR 4370 - PR: Remove misplaced flags from re.sub() call
  • PR 4354 - PR: Delete formlayout.py
  • PR 4352 - PR: Add Markdown syntax highlighter.
  • PR 4346 - PR: Fix tests in Appveyor
  • PR 4337 - PR: Add 'Show in external file explorer' option
  • PR 4302 - PR: Add a tab switcher dialog to the Editor
  • PR 4301 - PR: Avoid tab scrolling when changing current tab.
  • PR 4273 - PR: Add Contributing file
  • PR 4267 - PR: Add missing parameter to copy contents with the format defined in array editor
  • PR 4252 - PR: Make Cython a test dependency in setup.py
  • PR 4229 - PR: Backport PR #4198 - Cython support
  • PR 4218 - PR: Change from pep8 to pycodestyle for style analysis
  • PR 4211 - PR: Backport PR #4210 - Improve Cython syntax highlighting
  • PR 4202 - PR: Fix several IPdb problems and add some improvements to it
  • PR 4201 - PR: Remove u function from py3compat
  • PR 4092 - PR: Add the possibility to rename IPython consoles
  • PR 4056 - PR: Several Find in Files improvements
  • PR 4045 - PR: Make status bar widgets to have a fixed width
  • PR 4044 - PR: Add "run selection" icon to run toolbar
  • PR 4040 - PR: Show internal errors in a QMessageBox
  • PR 4033 - PR: Allow new files to be saved before modifing them.
  • PR 4027 - PR: Pressing Enter in the "Replace with" entry of Find/Replace replaces the currently selected text
  • PR 4000 - PR: Make IPython Console to use the same color scheme of the Editor
  • PR 3974 - PR: Added shortcut and menu option to re-run last cell
  • PR 3964 - PR: Update load_matlab and add test
  • PR 3946 - PR: Make Editor tabs movable
  • PR 3906 - PR: Don't show TextEditor if it fails to be initialized
  • PR 3491 - PR: Make Pygments to work correctly with QSyntaxHighlighter
  • PR 3464 - PR: Add a Shortcuts Summary window

In this release 111 pull requests were merged

Version 3.1.4 (2017-04-24)

Bugs fixed

Issues

  • Issue 4372 - Update translations for 3.1.4
  • Issue 4284 - The message about the removal of the Python console is also shown on the Internal console
  • Issue 4233 - Python console is stealing focus at startup because of message about its removal
  • Issue 4217 - "Unable to connect to the internet" problem
  • Issue 4191 - Kernel dies and can't report errors because of failure to read stderr file
  • Issue 4174 - Add our required packages for testing to setup.py
  • Issue 4173 - Add a message in the update dialog about not using pip if Spyder is running under Anaconda/Miniconda
  • Issue 4172 - Add a message to the Python console about its removal in Spyder 3.2
  • Issue 4170 - IPython console fails to start (Ipython >=6.x)
  • Issue 4161 - Create a test for finding print statements in the code
  • Issue 4141 - Code completion breaks with Spyder 3 for modules added through the Python path manager
  • Issue 4003 - Debugging seems to break with recent versions of Spyder and tqdm
  • Issue 4002 - %matplolib magic command in IPython terminal needs to be executed twice
  • Issue 3985 - Add CI testing with Python 3.6
  • Issue 3967 - Hide calltip when a matching ) is written up to the starting point where it's shown
  • Issue 3926 - File switcher doesn't leave focus in its last selected file when it looses focus
  • Issue 3823 - sig_new_file error when converting notebook to script
  • Issue 3195 - Test stand alone widgets in application
  • Issue 1855 - can't run doctest - unexpected keyword argument 'nosigint'

In this release 19 issues were closed

Pull requests

  • PR 4389 - PR: Update Spanish translation
  • PR 4387 - PR: Update Japanese translation
  • PR 4375 - PR: Update Russian translations
  • PR 4369 - PR: Add encoding handling to stderr files in the IPython Console
  • PR 4361 - PR: Fix some inline backend issues
  • PR 4353 - PR: Test conversion of notebooks to Python files from the Project Explorer
  • PR 4345 - PR: Simplify Appveyor installation
  • PR 4342 - PR: Decrease test times by moving Qt4 tests to Travis
  • PR 4341 - PR: Make jedi_patch.py to work with Jedi 0.10.x versions
  • PR 4321 - PR: Add all tests to the distributed package
  • PR 4311 - PR: More robust username query
  • PR 4293 - PR: Skip and re-run some tests that fail too much
  • PR 4292 - PR: Backport PR #4286
  • PR 4290 - PR: Add support for other plugins in File Switcher
  • PR 4283 - PR: Don't fail while running tests if coveralls fails for whatever reason
  • PR 4263 - PR: Add Spyder PYTHONPATH to PluginClient
  • PR 4256 - PR: Some test fixes
  • PR 4251 - PR: Add pytest-xvfb to our test dependencies
  • PR 4249 - PR: Run our tests with PyQt5 wheels on CircleCI
  • PR 4248 - PR: Change how to add removal message for the Python console to not make it steal focus
  • PR 4247 - PR: Added sigint argument to SpyderPdb constructor
  • PR 4246 - PR: Make %matplotlib magic to really change backends
  • PR 4237 - PR: Don't show internet conection errors on startup when trying to check for new releases
  • PR 4230 - PR: Run tests for PyQt4 and Python 3.6 on CircleCI
  • PR 4226 - PR: Generalice previous is_instance test to search other avoided patterns
  • PR 4224 - PR: Add warning message about updating Spyder if installed with Anaconda
  • PR 4208 - PR: Surround deprecated IPython quick_quide import by try/except block
  • PR 4199 - PR: Move all tests to be pytest's
  • PR 4189 - PR: Fixup MANIFEST.in to include the changelog
  • PR 4185 - PR: Add testing requirements to setup.py
  • PR 4177 - PR: Add a message informing the removal of the Python console
  • PR 4123 - PR: Add AppStream metainfo file
  • PR 4121 - PR: Monkey patch Jedi 0.10.0 for numpydoc
  • PR 4019 - PR: Handle errors while debugging code when importing tqdm
  • PR 3984 - PR: Correctly hide calltip when matching closing parenthesis
  • PR 3956 - PR: Add missing signal to convert notebooks from the project explorer
  • PR 3952 - PR: Make File Switcher leave focus on its last selected file when it loses focus

In this release 37 pull requests were merged

Version 3.1.3 (2017-02-20)

Bugs fixed

Issues

  • Issue 4139 - Nan value in dataframe editor crash Spyder
  • Issue 4128 - Add the version of PyQt in the report of the issue
  • Issue 4127 - UnboundLocalError: local variable 'img_path' referenced before assignment
  • Issue 4122 - Spyder closes after completing Run settings dialog for a first run.
  • Issue 4096 - More issues with autoindentation
  • Issue 4088 - Crash when saving an image in the IPython console
  • Issue 4086 - Error when launching a new Editor window from the options in the menu.
  • Issue 4085 - Crash in "New window" when opening new file.
  • Issue 4076 - Add tests to verify that importing .mat files is working
  • Issue 4074 - Identation broken after statements with closing parenthesis followed by more code
  • Issue 4072 - Case sensitive replace does not respect case
  • Issue 4066 - Spyder core dumps if an opened variable in variable explorer gets deleted
  • Issue 4063 - Spyder crashes when killing the current process to start a new one
  • Issue 4053 - Spyder 3.1.2 cannot connect to kernel as 3.0.2
  • Issue 4052 - Maximising current pane fails and hangs Spyder 3.1.x
  • Issue 4050 - Wrong binary in Python 3 wheels
  • Issue 4041 - Create a way to add tests for the whole app
  • Issue 4037 - Tabs as indentation - characters being removed in editor
  • Issue 4030 - Inconsistent icon for "Find symbols in file..."
  • Issue 4005 - Find in Files not working after 3.1.0 update
  • Issue 3992 - Remove unnecessary newlines in run cell
  • Issue 3972 - Remove file path from Editor's plugin title
  • Issue 3970 - Error when editing markdown
  • Issue 3917 - Failed to import data in Variable Explorer on Windows
  • Issue 3476 - New breakpoints can't be created in the IPython console

In this release 25 issues were closed

Pull requests

  • PR 4175 - PR: Set new breakpoints in the IPython console while on a debugging session
  • PR 4171 - PR: Re-run flaky tests several times
  • PR 4165 - PR: Loading spydata files now uncompress them inside a temp folder
  • PR 4152 - PR: Skip matlab import test if SciPy is not installed.
  • PR 4151 - PR: Make tests more reliable
  • PR 4148 - PR: Use an older Miniconda version for Python 3
  • PR 4144 - PR: Some fixes for Find in files
  • PR 4142 - PR: Gracefully handle ValueError in DataFrameModel
  • PR 4140 - PR: Disable some tests on Windows because they are timing out recurrently
  • PR 4133 - PR: Add an initialization value to img_path
  • PR 4130 - PR: Correctly stop pytest's on failure
  • PR 4129 - PR: Add Qt and PyQt version in the report of the issue
  • PR 4125 - PR: Make loading IPython kernels by using their ids to work again
  • PR 4113 - PR: Add a validation for the PyQt version used to show a message in the Python console
  • PR 4110 - PR: Add more tests for the main window
  • PR 4109 - PR: Fix maximize button
  • PR 4106 - PR: Prevent some crashes and errors when editing objects in the Variable Explorer
  • PR 4105 - PR: Fix hard crash when trying to open files in a new editor window
  • PR 4104 - PR: Pin Jedi to 0.9.0
  • PR 4102 - PR: Added Matlab files import tests
  • PR 4097 - PR: Add a validation for editorstack existence
  • PR 4082 - PR: More autoindentation fixes
  • PR 4079 - PR: Add a flag to use case sensitive search/replace
  • PR 4069 - PR: Fix executable name in Python 3 wheels
  • PR 4043 - PR: Use the "at" symbol to represent the symbol finder everywhere
  • PR 4042 - PR: Unindent with tabs was deleting some text.
  • PR 4034 - PR: Fix error when using TextSH (default highligher)
  • PR 4006 - PR: Remove unnecessary new lines when running cells
  • PR 3975 - PR: Remove file path from the Editor's plugin title.

In this release 29 pull requests were merged

Version 3.1.2 (2017-01-24)

Bugs fixed

Issues

  • Issue 4025 - Error when running cell for the first time in the Editor
  • Issue 4021 - Spyder fails to import numpy on first line of a file

In this release 2 issues were closed

Pull requests

  • PR 4031 - PR: Fix error when running cells because previous_focused_widget is not initialized in main window
  • PR 4029 - PR: Fix fix_indent() when editor cursor is on the first line

In this release 2 pull requests were merged

Version 3.1.1 (2017-01-22)

Bugs fixed

Issues

  • Issue 4012 - Edit menu items greyed out after update to Spyder 3.1.0
  • Issue 3989 - Spyder won't start after upgrade to 3.1.0 due to an error with QRegularExpression
  • Issue 3987 - Errors running or importing code because sys.argv is empty

In this release 3 issues were closed

Pull requests

  • PR 4022 - PR: Edit menu disable error
  • PR 3997 - PR: Enclosing quotes of sys.argv clearing instruction are now consistent
  • PR 3994 - PR: Use QRegularExpression only for Qt 5.5+

In this release 3 pull requests were merged

Version 3.1 (2017-01-18)

New features

Main Window

  • Add Introduction interactive tour to explain the main Spyder components (in Help > Interactive tours). This tour was announced in Spyder 3.0 but deactivated due to an error.

Editor

  • Add the Solarized Light and Dark color schemes.
  • Add support for greedy regular expressions in the find/replace widget (only available with PyQt5).
  • Improve the use of tabs instead of spaces for indentation.
  • Add Ctrl+Shift+T shortcut to reopen the last closed file.
  • Show completions for Numpy and Matplotlib compiled objects (e.g. np.array and plt.figure)
  • Disambiguate tabs in case users open several files with the same name.
  • Add the shortcut Ctrl+Alt+P to open a switcher to select among the symbols (functions, methods or classes) present in a file. Also add an entry in the File menu and toolbar button to show this switcher.

Variable Explorer

  • Add support for the most important numeric types of Numpy (32 and 64 bits int, float and complex numbers).
  • Save format for floats in DataFrame editor.
  • Make the index column of DataFrame editor always visible when scrolling to right and left.
  • Add support for Pandas DatetimeIndex objects.
  • Show empty Numpy arrays.

IPython Console

  • Be able to load kernel json files anywhere in the file system when connecting to external kernels.
  • Add an option (under Preferences > Run and Run > Configure) to clear all variables present in a console before running a file (it runs %reset -f in the associated kernel).

Profiler

  • Show time units (in seconds) spent by each function or method.

Settings

  • Make all keyboard shortcuts configurable

Under the hood

  • Add the --project <path-to-dir> command line option to load projects at startup.
  • Add the chardet and numpydoc libraries as new dependencies.

Bugs fixed

Issues

  • Issue 3968 - Update translations for 3.1
  • Issue 3962 - Update Appveyor Badge for new username spyder-ide
  • Issue 3961 - Add devs to the Appveyor account
  • Issue 3949 - F9 broken in latest git master
  • Issue 3943 - Qtpy 1.2.0 breaks Spyder with Qt4
  • Issue 3932 - Add verification for 'text/plain' key in all evaluations of the IPython console
  • Issue 3925 - Go-to-line dialog shows a question mark button that does nothing
  • Issue 3901 - Incorrect use of "it's" in tutorial
  • Issue 3896 - Spyder Variable explorer crashes when double clicking a 2 line DataFrame
  • Issue 3883 - Error when executing argparse in IPython console
  • Issue 3875 - async and await keywords highlight
  • Issue 3874 - Spyder freezes on new project creation
  • Issue 3859 - Extra selections should be ordered
  • Issue 3855 - Add fuzzy function/class search shortcut
  • Issue 3848 - 'self' not defined in DataFrameView.update_section_height()
  • Issue 3843 - Spyder shows blank screen because of errors in QtAwesome
  • Issue 3830 - Add a command line option to load projects
  • Issue 3818 - F1 shortcut is hard-coded
  • Issue 3809 - No call tips when 'Automatic insertion of parentheses, braces and brackets' is unchecked
  • Issue 3807 - Directory with non-ascii characters throws an error when it's made the working directory on the IPython console
  • Issue 3800 - Auto indentation of line following indented block
  • Issue 3794 - Create menu separator instead of None
  • Issue 3788 - runfile with path containing apostrophe will not work
  • Issue 3772 - Configparser error leads to crash of Spyder 3 under Python(x,y)
  • Issue 3764 - Problems with default extension in save_as
  • Issue 3763 - Replace contents of Find widget with current selection
  • Issue 3759 - KeyError: 'execution_count' in IPython console
  • Issue 3756 - Verify that the interpreter selected in Main Interpreter is really a Python interpreter
  • Issue 3755 - Redefined hotkeys are not displayed in menu
  • Issue 3753 - Saving a file is not respecting the encoding detected with chardet
  • Issue 3748 - Bad window size in spyder.ini prevents Spyder from showing
  • Issue 3746 - Menu view/toolbar has empty contents
  • Issue 3738 - Spyder crashes at startup because of errors when importing Sympy
  • Issue 3737 - Fast switch between files gives error for unicode files
  • Issue 3731 - Correctly report the encoding of files in the Editor using the chardet library
  • Issue 3729 - Define tabulation width in term of spaces instead of pixels
  • Issue 3706 - Spyder fails to create kernel.json files if jupyter_runtime_dir is not writable
  • Issue 3704 - Create a get_words method in introspection utils
  • Issue 3703 - Don't replace text in the find widget if there's text there
  • Issue 3700 - Wrong autoindentation with lists that contains strings with parenthesis
  • Issue 3680 - Autoindentation not working in first line
  • Issue 3678 - Weird behaviour of Save as...
  • Issue 3672 - Profiler is not showing time units
  • Issue 3670 - Dragging and dropping files in the Editor is failing
  • Issue 3651 - Improve indentation tests
  • Issue 3648 - Edit menu shortcuts are invisible
  • Issue 3638 - Variable explorer should display the value of numpy.int64 variables
  • Issue 3631 - Edit context menu appears only for utf-8 files in project explorer
  • Issue 3630 - Load external kernel json files from anywhere in the file system
  • Issue 3627 - Spyder won't start because of "ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8" in macOS
  • Issue 3608 - Syntax highlighting of decorators
  • Issue 3535 - Run ciocheck as part of our tests to test code style
  • Issue 3508 - Indentation issue using Tabs
  • Issue 3480 - Editor doesn't support hanging indentation
  • Issue 3473 - Incorrect auto-indentation
  • Issue 3461 - Click on outisde of tour should exit tour
  • Issue 3459 - Auto-adjust rows height in the Variable Explorer
  • Issue 3458 - Feature Request: Clear Console After Kernel Restart
  • Issue 3452 - Interactive tour freezes Spyder on Windows
  • Issue 3415 - Can't change Run Selection keyboard shortcut from F9 to Cmd + Shift + Enter
  • Issue 3408 - Find and replace: Greedy regular expressions
  • Issue 3407 - Sitecustomize fails when current directory has non-ascii chars
  • Issue 3395 - Don't hard code the Ctrl+Enter shortcut
  • Issue 3380 - DatetimeIndex types are not visible in the Variable Explorer
  • Issue 3322 - Spyder crashes with Unicode symbols in editor
  • Issue 3249 - Regex is not fully functional when using to find&replace
  • Issue 3160 - Disambiguate Editor tabs
  • Issue 3141 - Search for backslash () sign
  • Issue 3026 - File save as: file is unavailable
  • Issue 3005 - Getting "Spyder already running" warning when it's not
  • Issue 2927 - Editor: "move line up/down" commands broken when moving past a blank line
  • Issue 2907 - Modified file flag ('*') disappears from tab in the Editor
  • Issue 2728 - Add the default format in dataframe editor to user preferences
  • Issue 2644 - Editor: Popup showing function arguments only displayed for 3 seconds
  • Issue 2563 - Enhancement: add option to "clear all" variables before running script
  • Issue 2512 - Index column of Pandas DataFrame should be visible all the time
  • Issue 2415 - Add shortcut to open last closed tab
  • Issue 2392 - Current EOL status is displayed incorrectly after changing it
  • Issue 1165 - Console tabs are too big because they display the full filename

In this release 79 issues were closed

Pull requests

  • PR 3983 - Update Spanish translations
  • PR 3982 - PR: More fixes for Appveyor
  • PR 3979 - Update Brazilian Portuguese translation
  • PR 3971 - PR: Don't run pytest tests when running modules_test.bat in Appveyor
  • PR 3963 - PR: Update AppVeyor badge in Readme because of move to org account
  • PR 3960 - PR: Ping conda-build to 2.1.0 for compatibility with conda 4.3 in Travis and AppVeyor
  • PR 3951 - PR: Add default value to clear_variables=False in execute code method
  • PR 3944 - PR: Change setResizeMode to setSectionResizeMode
  • PR 3936 - PR: Backport PR #3577 - Use inspect.getfullargspec to support annotated functions in the Help pane
  • PR 3935 - PR: Add validation for 'text/plain' key in all if clauses of handle_exec_method
  • PR 3933 - PR: Catch LookupError when encoding in encode() function
  • PR 3931 - PR: Add some tests for indentation with brackets
  • PR 3930 - PR: Use encoding.encode function in run_code_analysis.
  • PR 3929 - PR: Save file with original encoding if possible
  • PR 3927 - PR: Remove question mark button on the 'Go to line' dialog.
  • PR 3920 - PR: Incorrect use of "it's" in tutorial
  • PR 3918 - PR: Clean sys.argv in our IPython kernels
  • PR 3898 - PR: Get the proper encoding for the header text of Dataframe editor
  • PR 3893 - PR: Show calltips when 'Automatic insertion of parentheses, braces and brackets' is unchecked
  • PR 3886 - PR: Add a way to handle font errors in QtAwesome
  • PR 3885 - PR: Add async and await as keywords for syntax highlighting
  • PR 3884 - PR: Hide tour tips dialog when Spyder looses focus
  • PR 3879 - PR: Make Spyder not to freeze on new project creation
  • PR 3878 - PR: Add function/class search shortcut, menu and toolbar entries
  • PR 3871 - PR: Add option to "clear all" variables before running file
  • PR 3866 - PR: Add code to cancel active Appveyor builds in a branch
  • PR 3864 - PR: Extra selections is now an ordered dictionary
  • PR 3861 - PR: Show kernel initialization errors in the IPython console
  • PR 3854 - PR: Add disambiguation functionality to the Python console
  • PR 3853 - PR: Move rope_patch.py to utils/introspection
  • PR 3852 - PR: Add missing 'self' to DataFrameView.update_section_height
  • PR 3849 - PR: Support DatetimeIndex in Variable Explorer
  • PR 3847 - PR: Make regex fully functional when using find & replace
  • PR 3845 - PR: Install ciocheck from the spyder-ide Anaconda channel
  • PR 3842 - PR: Validate that Main Interpreter is really a Python interpreter
  • PR 3840 - PR: Make conda respect channel priority in CircleCI
  • PR 3837 - PR: Catch UnicodeDecodeError when trying to import matplotlib in sitecustomize.py.
  • PR 3836 - PR: Ignore some superflous errors reported by ciocheck
  • PR 3834 - PR: Add a command line option to load projects
  • PR 3827 - PR: Don't run Pylint with ciocheck
  • PR 3826 - PR: Improve auto indentation of line following indented block
  • PR 3822 - PR: Make Spyder documentation keyboard shortcut configurable
  • PR 3817 - PR: Fix "move line down" behavior in the presence of blank lines
  • PR 3813 - PR: Fixed encoding issue when changing cwd in the IPython console
  • PR 3811 - PR: Make index column of DataFrame editor always visible
  • PR 3808 - Patch Jedi to get completions for compiled objects in Numpy and Matplotlib
  • PR 3806 - PR: Added management for toolbars in new Editor windows instances.
  • PR 3805 - PR: Backport #3803 - Use CircleCI for testing
  • PR 3802 - PR: Add missing menus to show shortcuts for in macOS
  • PR 3796 - PR: Make running a file with single quotes on its path not to throw an error on Windows
  • PR 3795 - PR: Use a menu separator constant instead of None
  • PR 3793 - PR: Closing tour does not freeze Spyder on windows
  • PR 3791 - PR: Catch error raised in isbinaryornot when trying to open a directory
  • PR 3787 - PR: Redefinition of upper/lower shortcuts was not updated in Edit menu
  • PR 3785 - PR: Change file switcher entries to unicode
  • PR 3781 - PR: Backport #3574 - Improve style of scientific startup script
  • PR 3776 - Improve highlighter decorator regexp
  • PR 3774 - PR: Delete references to the 'xy' module.
  • PR 3770 - PR: Modified behavior for the Find widget to replace contents with current selection
  • PR 3765 - PR: Set Python as default file extension for the "Save As" dialog
  • PR 3760 - PR: Define tabulation width in term of spaces instead of pixels
  • PR 3757 - PR: Add get_words function to introspection/utils
  • PR 3754 - PR: Added validation to window/position config value saved in spyder.ini
  • PR 3752 - Backport pull request #3534 (Solarized themes)
  • PR 3749 - PR: Fix View/Toolbars menu
  • PR 3742 - PR: Use chardet as a fallback for encoding detection
  • PR 3741 - PR: Show time units in Profiler
  • PR 3739 - Utils: Make is_module_installed to catch all errors when importing a module
  • PR 3733 - PR: Fix EOL status after changing it
  • PR 3719 - PR: Spyder wont crash if it can not acces jupyter runtime dir
  • PR 3717 - PR: Load kernel json files anywhere in the filesystem
  • PR 3715 - PR: Add disambiguation functionality for Editor tabs
  • PR 3709 - PR: Don't replace text in the find widget if there's text there
  • PR 3707 - PR: Disable languages whose translations are outdated
  • PR 3699 - PR: Remove logic to delete last dir separator (, /) in find and replace widget
  • PR 3696 - PR: Use QRegularExpression for find and replace (only for PyQt5)
  • PR 3695 - PR: Set English as default language if getdefaultlocale gives errors
  • PR 3685 - PR: Fixed weird behavior of "Save as"
  • PR 3675 - PR: Several fixes for the Variable Explorer
  • PR 3663 - PR: Fix some errors of Indentation with tabs
  • PR 3659 - PR: Improve spyder.lock pid verfication
  • PR 3654 - PR: Add regex to highlight decorators
  • PR 3653 - PR: Added support to the principal numeric Numpy types in the Variable Explorer
  • PR 3640 - PR: Check if files are text files using the binaryornot package
  • PR 3620 - PR: Add Ctrl+Shift+T shortcut to reopen the last closed Editor tab
  • PR 3611 - PR: Remember format for floats in DataFrame editor
  • PR 3604 - PR: Add ciocheck linter formater tester
  • PR 3498 - PR: Change fixed shortcuts for configurable ones
  • PR 3487 - PR: Add hanging Indentation to the Editor
  • PR 3296 - PR: Don't hide calltip widget with a timer

In this release 91 pull requests were merged

Version 3.0.2 (2016/11/20)

New features

  • Add an option under Preferences > General to enable/disable high DPI scaling (disabled by default).
  • Add a menu entry in the Projects menu to cleanly delete projects.
  • Add the shortcuts Ctrl+U and Ctrl+Shift+U to turn text into lower/uppercase respectively.

Bugs fixed

Issues

  • Issue 3647 - "%reset -s" is giving an error in the IPython console
  • Issue 3618 - Removing a project deletes also the files on the disk
  • Issue 3609 - New release dialog is un-clickable
  • Issue 3588 - Files are opened twice at startup if a project is active
  • Issue 3583 - Error when connecting to external kernels
  • Issue 3575 - Cannot press Enter after underscore in File Switcher
  • Issue 3564 - Error when reloading modules in the IPython Console in Python 2
  • Issue 3561 - Working Directory toolbar is not working for IPython Consoles
  • Issue 3553 - Spyder fails to launch because of Unicode errors in create_kernel_spec
  • Issue 3522 - Dependencies diaog not updating correctly when installing dependencies while spyder is running
  • Issue 3519 - Cannot set Maximum Number of Recent Files
  • Issue 3513 - Spyder does not free up memory after closing windows with datasets in the Variable explorer
  • Issue 3489 - Display problems on systems that use 'display scaling'
  • Issue 3444 - Reports of Kernel Death are greatly exagerated
  • Issue 3436 - Default file extension should be .py instead of empty
  • Issue 3430 - Update translations
  • Issue 3214 - Indentation after a line with [] and {} is reset
  • Issue 3127 - Spyder fails to launch because of errors in spyder.ini
  • Issue 2159 - Built-in 'print' statement is displayed as two different colors depending on indentation
  • Issue 1669 - Menu item and shortcut to toggle UPPER and lower case of selected text
  • Issue 1665 - sympy shadows matplotlib in ipython console
  • Issue 1373 - Editor autoindentation fails after list, dict

In this release 22 issues were closed

Pull requests

  • PR 3702 - PR: Update French translation
  • PR 3694 - Restore icons in the code completion widget
  • PR 3687 - Increase time to detect if an IPython kernel is alive
  • PR 3681 - Update Spanish translation
  • PR 3679 - Update Russian translations
  • PR 3664 - Free memory when closing a Variable Explorer editor
  • PR 3661 - IPython Console: Fix error when running "%reset -s"
  • PR 3660 - IPython Console: Simple fix after PR #3641
  • PR 3642 - PR: Fix unclickable update message box
  • PR 3641 - PR: Fix error when trying to add a non-ascii module in Python 2 to the UMR blacklist
  • PR 3629 - PR: Add shortcut for Upper/Lower functionality
  • PR 3626 - PR: Added management for delete operation of a project
  • PR 3622 - Fix connection between the IPython Console and the Working Directory toolbar
  • PR 3621 - Some corrections after pull request #3580
  • PR 3619 - Fix another error when connecting to external kernels
  • PR 3615 - PR: Allow underscore to be valid for Enter in File Switcher
  • PR 3599 - Load default settings if there is any error in spyder.ini
  • PR 3596 - PR: New warning message in IPython console when both pylab and sympy are enabled
  • PR 3590 - Fix builtin and keywords highlighting depending on indentation
  • PR 3589 - Don't open files saved as part of a project twice at startup
  • PR 3582 - PR: Added a verification for the existence of the 'text/plain' key
  • PR 3581 - PR: remove spyder/widgets/tests/init.py because of error in execution of pytest -rxs
  • PR 3580 - PR: Set default file extension in save dialog
  • PR 3576 - Fix autoindentation after data structures.
  • PR 3572 - PR: Change deprecated funtion QInputDialog.getInteger for QInputDialog.getInt
  • PR 3551 - Add option to set/unset dpi scaling for screens that are not high resolution
  • PR 3543 - PR: Change of the label in the dependencies dialog

In this release 27 pull requests were merged

Version 3.0.1 (2016-10-19)

Bugfixes

Issues

  • Issue 3528 - Cannot see numpy datatypes in variable explorer
  • Issue 3518 - Spyder hangs with big numpy structured arrays
  • Issue 3484 - Fix menus in macOS
  • Issue 3475 - Cannot type left parenthesis in ipdb when automatic Help is turned on
  • Issue 3472 - Cannot connect to existing ipython kernel after upgrading to 3.0
  • Issue 3471 - "Local variable 'reply' referenced before assignment" on debugger exit
  • Issue 3454 - ImportError with create_app.py
  • Issue 3453 - Update docs for Projects
  • Issue 3317 - Console/Editor lose focus when auto-connected to help
  • Issue 2284 - Very slow boot time on Mac app

In this release 10 issues were closed

Pull requests

  • PR 3560 - Update documentation
  • PR 3550 - Prevent WebEngine to steal focus when setting html on the page
  • PR 3548 - Fix some ipdb issues
  • PR 3546 - Truncate all values shown in the Variable Explorer
  • PR 3544 - Don't try to get shape and ndim for objects that are not ndarrays
  • PR 3541 - Update create_app.py for Spyder 3.0
  • PR 3540 - Fix problems when connecting to external kernels
  • PR 3501 - PR: Handle Mac menubar icon bug
  • PR 3499 - Testing: Pin conda-build to 2.0.0

In this release 9 pull requests were merged

Version 3.0 (2016-09-24)

New features

Main Window

  • The Object Inspector pane was renamed to Help.
  • Add a new icon theme based on FontAwesome.
  • Add an Introduction interactive tutorial (under the Help menu).
  • Add new default layouts (Horizontal, Vertical, Matlab and Rstudio), and also the possibility to name custom layouts.
  • Panes that are tabbed next to each other can now be rearranged by dragging and dropping their tabs.
  • Check for Spyder updates at startup, and also if you go to the menu entry Help > Check for updates.
  • Add the shortcut Shift+Alt+R to restart the application.
  • Add an option to warn when exiting the application, under Preferences > General > Interface > Prompt when exiting.
  • Add Portuguese, Russian and Japanese translations.
  • Remove light mode

Editor

  • Add highlighting and code completion to all file types supported by Pygments (a syntax highlighting library)
  • Use Ctrl+M and Ctrl+Alt+M to visually create matrices and vectors. It also works on the Python and IPython consoles.
  • Add a new file switcher inspired by the Sublime Text one, which can be called with the Ctrl+P shortcut. It can also be used to look for classes, functions and methods inside a file, using the @my_function syntax.

Projects

  • A new menu entry called Projects was added to the main window with all actions related to projects.
  • A project now saves the state of open files in the Editor, so that people can easily work on different coding efforts at the same time.
  • The project's path is added to PYTHONPATH, so that Python packages developed as part of a project can be easily imported in Spyder consoles.
  • The project explorer now shows a file tree view of the current project, as other editors and IDEs do (e.g. Sublime Text and VSCode).
  • Projects are completely optional and not imposed on users, i.e. users can work without creating any project.

Settings

  • Keyboard shortcuts can now be entered in an easier and more intuitive way.
  • Add a menu entry to reset to default settings, under Tools > Reset Spyder to factory defaults.
  • The language used in the main interface can now be changed. The option to do it is present in General > Advanced Settings.
  • Syntax coloring now has a preview of the selected theme and it's able to change the current theme for all plugins.
  • Plain and Rich text fonts for all plugins are now changed in General > Appearance.
  • Add a new entry called Python interpreter to allow people to select the interpreter used for all Python and IPython consoles (this was before in Console > Advanced settings).
  • Rename the Console entry to Python console.

IPython console

  • Drop support for IPython 3.0 and older versions.
  • Support the new qtconsole package instead.
  • Communicate directly with IPython kernels instead of doing it through the Python console.

Debugging

  • Enter debugging mode if running a file generates errors. This is not activated by default but you can do it by going to Run > Configure > General settings.

Profiler

  • Add the ability to save and restore profiler data to compare speed improvements.

Working directory toolbar

  • Get directory completions by pressing the Tab key twice on it.

API Changes

Major changes
  • The spyderlib module was renamed to spyder
  • spyderplugins has been removed and its plugins have been assigned to different different modules (spyder_profiler, spyder_breakpoints, etc) still distributed with the Spyder package.
Minor changes
  • spyderlib.widgets.dicteditor.DictEditor has been renamed to spyder.widgets.variableexplorer.collectionseditor.CollectionsEditor.
  • spyderlib/widgets/dicteditorutils.py has been renamed to spyder/widgets/variableexplorer/utils.py.
  • spyderlib/widgets/externalshell/namespacebrowser.py has been moved to spyder/widgets/variableexplorer.
  • spyderlib/widgets/externalshell/syntaxhighlighters.py has been moved to spyder/utils/.
  • Variable Explorer editor widgets were moved from spyderlib.widgets to spyder.widgets.variableexplorer:
    • spyder.widgets.variableexplorer.arrayeditor
    • spyder.widgets.variableexplorer.collectionseditor
    • spyder.widgets.variableexplorer.objecteditor
    • spyder.widgets.variableexplorer.texteditor
    • spyder.widgets.variableexplorer.dataframeeditor
  • Modules used for configuration options (e.g. spyderlib.config, spyderlib.baseconfig, etc) were moved to a new namespace called spyder.config.
  • Modules and files related to the application have been moved to spyder.app.
  • spyderlib/plugins/projectexplorer.py has been renamed to spyder/plugins/projects.py
  • spyderlib/widgets/projectexplorer.py has been renamed to spyder/widgets/projects/explorer.py
  • spyderlib/plugins/inspector.py was renamed to spyder/plugins/help.py.
  • spyderlib/utils/inspector was renamed to spyder/utils/help.
  • spyderlib.qt was removed.
  • spyderlib/widgets/ipython.py was broken in several files inside spyder/widgets/ipythonconsole.
  • spyder/widgets/externalshell/{sitecustomize.py, osx_app_site.py} were moved to spyder/utils/site
  • spyder/widgets/externalshell/start_ipython_kernel.py was moved to spyder/utils/ipython

Under the hood

  • Drop support for Python 2.6 and 3.2.
  • Support PyQt5.
  • Drop official support for PySide. Support for it will have to come from the community.
  • Move our settings directory to HOME/.spyder{-py3}. Previous location was HOME/.spyder2{-py3}
  • On Linux we now follow the XDG specification to save our settings, i.e. they are saved in ~/.config/spyder{-py3} or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/spyder{-py3} if $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is defined.
  • Use the new (pythonic) style for signals and slots.
  • Test Spyder with the help of Travis and AppVeyor.
  • Code completions and help retrieval on the Editor are done asynchronously using a client/server architecture based on PyZMQ.
  • Spyder now uses the qtpy package to be able to work with PyQt4 and PyQt5 seamlessly.

Bugfixes

Issues

In this release 2 issues were closed

Pull requests

  • PR 3451 - Update Brazilian Portuguese translation
  • PR 3450 - Update Spanish translation
  • PR 3446 - Some fixes for Appveyor and Travis
  • PR 3442 - Avoid showing cmd consoles when starting IPython kernels on Windows
  • PR 3441 - Update Russian translation
  • PR 3439 - Fix profiler
  • PR 3438 - Add an init file to utils/site so it can be added to our tarballs

In this release 7 pull requests were merged

Version 3.0beta7 (2016-09-16)

Bugfixes

Issues

  • Issue 3419 - IPython console: help window hijacks ? keypress
  • Issue 3403 - Error when opening project and cancelling
  • Issue 3354 - IPython console run code lines not being saved in preferences
  • Issue 3109 - Auto select the only IPython or Python console after startup
  • Issue 3011 - Cannot connect to existing kernel with full path specified
  • Issue 2945 - Cannot locate kernel json file when connecting to remote ipython kernel
  • Issue 2918 - Spyder always switches back to IPython kernel from IPyhton console
  • Issue 2846 - Import runfile() produces errors when using a virtualenv
  • Issue 2844 - Spyder won't connect to kernel / IPython console after switching to an external interpreter
  • Issue 2790 - Make "Ask for confirmation before closing tabs" in IPython console work for all consoles
  • Issue 2696 - Enter in the IPython console inserts new line instead of executing current line after kernel restart
  • Issue 1860 - Don't show IPython kernels in the Python console by default

In this release 12 issues were closed

Pull requests

  • PR 3423 - Try to fix plotting on Windows for the Python Console
  • PR 3422 - Don't try to use "?" to automatically get help in the IPython console
  • PR 3421 - Don't show a message when users press cancel in the "Open project" dialog
  • PR 3420 - Skip testing the Spyder kernel for IPython consoles
  • PR 3386 - Allow plugins with no dockwidgets
  • PR 3368 - Avoid eval() when reading config file
  • PR 2878 - PR: Remove IPython kernels from the Python console and connect directly to them

In this release 7 pull requests were merged

Version 3.0beta6 (2016-08-30)

Bugfixes

Issues

  • Issue 3363 - Spyder wont start unless file ".spyderproject" is deleted. UnpicklingError
  • Issue 3274 - Text not visible in new file switcher in KDE
  • Issue 3211 - Edited syntax coloring preferences are not applied or saved
  • Issue 3128 - Project Explorer filename filter (minor)
  • Issue 3099 - Can existing files be added to a Spyder project?
  • Issue 2887 - Make .spyderproject a textfile
  • Issue 2636 - Problems with filename extension for saved sessions
  • Issue 2595 - Spyder project renames/creates folders by removing first letter of imported directories
  • Issue 2460 - Design for Projects in 3.0
  • Issue 1964 - Project explorer doesn't refresh its contents
  • Issue 1947 - New Project not getting created
  • Issue 1642 - Files excluded by the filter list are displayed in the project explorer after start of spyder
  • Issue 1554 - Add project's path to our PYTHONPATH so that it can be imported in the console
  • Issue 1320 - Reorganize Spyder repository
  • Issue 1317 - Make Project Explorer remember state of open files when reopening

In this release 15 issues were closed

Pull requests

  • PR 3377 - Completely rewrite our support for Projects
  • PR 3370 - Some improvements to our CI services
  • PR 3369 - Remove some old files and directories
  • PR 3356 - Remove icons from tabs for the Editor and IPython Console
  • PR 3355 - Some improvements to our file switcher
  • PR 3277 - Finish reorganization of the Spyder repo

In this release 6 pull requests were merged

Version 3.0beta5 (2016-08-22)

Bugfixes

Issues

  • Issue 3351 - Spyder not opening because of problems with spyder.lock
  • Issue 3327 - Drag and drop from OS file explorer is not working
  • Issue 3308 - Variable Explorer fails to display DataFrame with categories
  • Issue 3306 - Spyder unresponsive, requires forced quit (OS X)
  • Issue 3297 - Pressing Ctrl+P twice opens file switcher twice
  • Issue 3293 - F9 does not auto advance when it's at the last line
  • Issue 3288 - "Quit Spyder" menu entry doesn't work in 3.0.0b4 (OS X 10.11)
  • Issue 3287 - Spyder can't open a console because of problems with Beautiful Soup
  • Issue 3282 - QApplication is used from QtGui instead of QtWidgets in app/spyder.py
  • Issue 2940 - Variable explorer can't show Pandas objects containing timezone aware columns
  • Issue 2629 - Use XDG_CONFIG_HOME for config directory on Linux
  • Issue 2465 - Images are not rendered by the Help pane on Windows
  • Issue 2119 - Spyder doesn't render well on HighDpi screens

In this release 13 issues were closed

Pull requests

  • PR 3366 - Fix "Quit Spyder" action on OS X
  • PR 3357 - Remove lock file as part of --reset
  • PR 3353 - Rewrite computation of max and min in dataframe editor
  • PR 3352 - Use XDG_CONFIG_HOME to save our settings on Linux
  • PR 3339 - Fix dragging and dropping files to the Editor
  • PR 3338 - Testing: Use Qt/PyQt 5.6 packages in Travis
  • PR 3336 - PR: Update readme and organize badges
  • PR 3333 - Enable high DPI scaling on Qt >= 5.6
  • PR 3325 - Fix further freezes because of pyzmq
  • PR 3324 - Make 'run line' add a blank line if on last line.
  • PR 3319 - Test Spyder with Qt 5.6 in AppVeyor
  • PR 3315 - Fix showing images in the Help plugin for Windows
  • PR 3313 - Toggle file switcher when pressing its keyboard shortcut
  • PR 3312 - Fix monkey-patching of QApplication
  • PR 3310 - Fix error when Beautiful Soup is installed incorrectly
  • PR 3300 - Re-include plugins in setup.py packages
  • PR 3295 - PR: Fix/Find in files
  • PR 3294 - Add keyboard shortcuts to context menu in editor
  • PR 3285 - Japanese translation
  • PR 3273 - Testing: Don't use particular tags when installing local conda packages

In this release 20 pull requests were merged

Version 3.0beta4 (2016-07-01)

Bugfixes

Issues

  • Issue 3267 - Spyder 3.0 Beta3 fails to start in OS X
  • Issue 3237 - Unable to see Float16 in Spyder Variable Explorer
  • Issue 3231 - Deprecation warning from IPython 5.0.0b4
  • Issue 3230 - Spyder is failing because of wrong qtpy version
  • Issue 3223 - Spyder 3.0 Beta 3 crashing or freezing because of zmq problems
  • Issue 3219 - Pylint report not jumping to line
  • Issue 3206 - Local variable 'backends' referenced before assignment when starting IPython kernel
  • Issue 3188 - Spyder crashes after creating a new file from Project/File Explorer
  • Issue 3187 - Spyder crashes after deleting a folder in File explorer
  • Issue 3186 - "New -> Module..." menu not saving the new module file to the disk
  • Issue 3159 - Cannot search text in Help pane
  • Issue 3155 - Exception raised when running script in external terminal
  • Issue 3150 - Fix external plugins import
  • Issue 3116 - Console panel resizing itself as new console tabs are opened
  • Issue 3020 - DataFrame editor should first sort up, then down
  • Issue 3010 - DataFrame editor should do a stable sort
  • Issue 2995 - Variable explorer - Sequence break with wrong mapping
  • Issue 2976 - Profiling hangs/freezes Spyder
  • Issue 2915 - Problems with changing keyboard shortcuts on Mac
  • Issue 2914 - Change keybinding for Replace text (⌘H) in the Editor on Mac
  • Issue 1462 - Repeatable segfault while editing HTML file
  • Issue 872 - Quotes and colons autocompletion

In this release 22 issues were closed

Pull requests

  • PR 3271 - Fix introspection plugin server restart and timeout
  • PR 3266 - Fix searching text in our Web widgets
  • PR 3264 - Support float16 values in array editor
  • PR 3261 - Fix timeouts in AppVeyor
  • PR 3260 - Fix handling of unmatched end-of-HTML-comment.
  • PR 3253 - Update minimal required version of several of our dependencies
  • PR 3252 - Change Replace shortcut from Ctrl/Cmd+H to Ctrl/Cmd+R
  • PR 3251 - Fix problems in AppVeyor because of update in conda-build
  • PR 3248 - Fix heartbeat in introspection client/server
  • PR 3240 - Improve sorting in dataframe editor
  • PR 3235 - Fix several problems with our shortcuts system
  • PR 3234 - Create only one instance of IntrospectionManager for the application
  • PR 3233 - Fixes for qtpy 1.1.0
  • PR 3228 - Fix a bug preventing Spyder to open external file In Mac application
  • PR 3227 - Fix keyboard interrupt handling in plugin_server.py
  • PR 3222 - Variable explorer: Disregard list1 when sorting list1 against list2
  • PR 3218 - PR: Allow empty wdir option to run_python_script_in_terminal
  • PR 3217 - Fix icon name in conda windows build script.
  • PR 3210 - PR: Follow the Flask plugin model instead of namespace packages
  • PR 3209 - Fix undefined backends when starting IPython kernel
  • PR 3190 - Fix small Explorer bugs about file operations
  • PR 3177 - PR: Fix automatic insertion of colon
  • PR 3174 - PR: Fix tutorial images on Windows
  • PR 3095 - Add some indentation tests
  • PR 3024 - Added QMutex protection to write_output in Python consoles to avoid crashes when writing long outputs

In this release 25 pull requests were merged

Version 3.0beta3 (2016-06-06)

Bugfixes

Issues

  • Issue 3145 - Spyder doesn't work with Qt 5.6
  • Issue 3129 - Is there a way to modify the main window title?
  • Issue 3122 - Test array builder widget
  • Issue 3115 - Automatically advance to the next line after pressing F9
  • Issue 3113 - Cannot change font or font size
  • Issue 3112 - Cannot open preferences dialog because of missing PYQT5 constant
  • Issue 3101 - Migrate to qtpy
  • Issue 3100 - Migrate to qtpy: Remove internal Qt shim used by Spyder.
  • Issue 3084 - Variable Explorer generates an error while editing a DataFrame
  • Issue 3078 - (I)Python consoles are not setting PyQt API to #2
  • Issue 3073 - Spyder doesn't work with QtWebEngine
  • Issue 3061 - Different output for internal and external console on Windows
  • Issue 3053 - Ctrl+I doesn't seem to work on the editor on current tree on Windows
  • Issue 3041 - Spyder crash with "too many files open" message
  • Issue 3033 - Create a Remote Procedure Call helper
  • Issue 3022 - Turn off module completion fallback
  • Issue 3021 - Ghost completions
  • Issue 3013 - "Goto definition" stopped working (3.0.0b2 Mac)
  • Issue 3009 - Spyder crashes with Python 3.5 and pyqt4 if there are no existing configuration files
  • Issue 3000 - Shortcuts: reset console / empty namespace
  • Issue 2986 - Add context menu option for %reset
  • Issue 2968 - Variable explorer gives an error when copying values
  • Issue 2912 - Change keybinding for re-running last script
  • Issue 2910 - Automatically set working directory in console
  • Issue 2900 - 'Commit' command in File explorer not working in Spyder 3.0.0b2
  • Issue 2877 - path module not available in 3.0.0b2
  • Issue 2853 - Set all fonts to be one and only one for all plugins in spyder
  • Issue 2835 - Control+C should not copy if it has nothing selected on the editor
  • Issue 2724 - Editor very slow on Mac Yosemite and El Capitan
  • Issue 2703 - File in Project Explorer is being executed(?) on dbl-click
  • Issue 2619 - Spyder fails to start on light mode because of check_updates code
  • Issue 2438 - Use a single font for all panes
  • Issue 2407 - very slow auto completion with pandas
  • Issue 2376 - Rename Object Inspector plug-in
  • Issue 2354 - Context menu for tabs in editor should allow "close all but this" and "close all to the right"
  • Issue 2268 - Start testing with pytest/pytest-qt and coverage for Spyder
  • Issue 1996 - Unable to change the interface colors despite saving them in the preferences.
  • Issue 1750 - Fail to do automatic indentation after comments
  • Issue 1730 - 2 or 4 spaces, not 3
  • Issue 820 - Move all color-related options into Preferences -> Color scheme

In this release 40 issues were closed

Pull requests

  • PR 3204 - Make "Spyder 3" the default icon theme
  • PR 3201 - Fix AppVeyor failures
  • PR 3198 - Support PyQt 5.6
  • PR 3151 - More robust plugin initialization in layout
  • PR 3146 - Editor: Move to next line in run_selection() if nothing selected
  • PR 3133 - Add an option to set window title to the command line
  • PR 3120 - PR: Add pytests for array builder, code coverage and quantified code
  • PR 3119 - PR: fix Russian translation
  • PR 3105 - Remove our internal Qt shim in favor of QtPy
  • PR 3098 - PR: Migrate to qtpy
  • PR 3086 - Fix interrupt handling on Windows
  • PR 3072 - Added Russian translation. Updated POT file
  • PR 3062 - Fix consoles encoding in Python 3
  • PR 3060 - Start testing with Qt5 on Windows
  • PR 3049 - Implement a new Async Server approach based on pyzmq to get completions on the Editor
  • PR 3043 - Copying when nothing is selected no longer affects the clipboard.
  • PR 3036 - PR: Improve Syntax Coloring preferences page and set color scheme for all plugins there
  • PR 3035 - PR: Remove font groups from plugins and move to general preferences
  • PR 3034 - Report missing hard dependencies after startup
  • PR 3032 - Fix errant completions
  • PR 3029 - Add shebang line to default template.py
  • PR 3023 - Fix bug in get encoding from "coding" comment line
  • PR 3018 - PR: Remove Jedi special code in tests and other minor fixes
  • PR 3015 - Editor: Fix code completions when working with bootstrap
  • PR 2997 - Added context menu option to reset IPython namespace
  • PR 2974 - Center cell icon
  • PR 2973 - PR: Show all supported text files when opening files with "File > Open"
  • PR 2971 - Make run-cell icons pixel-perfect
  • PR 2957 - PR: Select the word under cursor if nothing is selected in Find/Replace
  • PR 2955 - PR: Make backspace move to parent directory in file explorer
  • PR 2952 - PR: Enable 'Save All' if there are files to be saved
  • PR 2939 - PR: More accurate test for text-like files
  • PR 2935 - PR: Improving Spyder 3 icon theme
  • PR 2932 - PR: Asynchronous introspection for the Editor
  • PR 2930 - PR: fix not decorated slots connected to 'triggered' and 'clicked' signals
  • PR 2929 - Hide Help plugin if Sphinx is not installed
  • PR 2919 - PR: Synchronize entry in Working Directory toolbar with console's current working directory
  • PR 2917 - PR: Create a new module called app and move there all modules related to our application
  • PR 2913 - Move to use Jupyter imports and remove support for IPython 3
  • PR 2897 - Fixed typos (thanks to Benjamin Weis)
  • PR 2890 - Added .idea folder to .gitignore for PyCharm users
  • PR 2888 - Add 3,5,6,7,8 spaces as options in indentation of the Editor
  • PR 2886 - Remove official support for PySide
  • PR 2881 - PR: Crashing on shortcut assignment with PyQt5
  • PR 2879 - Use PyQt5 as default API
  • PR 2874 - Remove light mode
  • PR 2873 - Rename Object Inspector plugin to Help
  • PR 2669 - PR: Use pygments in introspection
  • PR 2519 - Add "close all but this" and "close all to the right" entries to the Editor context menu
  • PR 2184 - Prevent cmd.exe shell windows popping up in the background when calling subprocess

In this release 50 pull requests were merged

Version 3.0beta1/beta2 (2015-12-11)

Bugfixes

Issues

  • Issue 2852 - Create conda.recipe folder at repo level
  • Issue 2836 - Dicom plugin error in bootstrap.py
  • Issue 2795 - Option 'Automatic insertion of parentheses, braces and brackets' has issues when un-checked
  • Issue 2792 - Changing IPython graphics backend to "Qt" will result in error when using Qt5
  • Issue 2788 - Plots are requiring a Ctrl+C in the Python console when using the Qt4 backend on Windows
  • Issue 2779 - Bundled rope version is causing Spyder to crash
  • Issue 2766 - fix ArrayEditor under PyQt5
  • Issue 2763 - Release 3.0 with PyQt5 as default
  • Issue 2756 - fallback_plugin tests are failing
  • Issue 2748 - Spyder freezes when large MaskedArrays are in memory
  • Issue 2737 - UI issues with collapse/expand in the profiler
  • Issue 2736 - Profiler config does not carry command line arguments correctly
  • Issue 2685 - "unable to connect to the internet" nag screen in 3.0.0b1
  • Issue 2677 - Autocomplete for working directory widget
  • Issue 2674 - Add run cell (and run cell advance) to right click prompt
  • Issue 2672 - Autocomplete does not insert correct word when requested with Ctrl+Space
  • Issue 2612 - Fix version detection on the Dependencies dialog
  • Issue 2598 - Cannot change between UI tabs on OSX
  • Issue 2597 - new icon theme broken on OSX
  • Issue 2581 - Autoparens appear when autocompleting in the import section
  • Issue 2574 - Create wheels for Spyder
  • Issue 2573 - Spyder is crashing with PyQt5.5.0 on Windows / Python 3.4
  • Issue 2569 - Spyper cannot read yahoo stock price
  • Issue 2555 - Main window is bigger than screen size, after a first start in Mac and KDE
  • Issue 2527 - More suggestions for the "Spyder 3" icon theme
  • Issue 2481 - Align boxes for different lines in preferences dialog
  • Issue 2471 - Matplotlib Gtk backend is broken in Python consoles
  • Issue 2439 - Rope not autocompleting when *args or **kwargs are present in function definition
  • Issue 2436 - Background coloring in array view (variable explorer) doesn't work if array contains nans
  • Issue 2433 - Argument cannot work in Spyder 2.3.4
  • Issue 2427 - can't find pylint installed as python3-pylint
  • Issue 2422 - Selecting line numbers from the side areas with pointer potentially buggy?
  • Issue 2420 - Zoom should not be associated with a file
  • Issue 2408 - Exception on autocomplete in the internal console
  • Issue 2404 - Code completion raise exception when the editor widget is floating
  • Issue 2401 - Unable to reset settings from the Main Window
  • Issue 2395 - Can not show exception information correctly in IPython Console
  • Issue 2390 - Code completion is failing on Python consoles
  • Issue 2389 - Move helper widgets to helperwidgets.py
  • Issue 2386 - Error in Python console on startup
  • Issue 2385 - Can't report issue on master with PyQt5
  • Issue 2381 - Disable post-crash popup in dev mode
  • Issue 2379 - Spyder can't switch lines of code when those two lines are the last two in the file
  • Issue 2352 - Some issues with code completion in the Editor
  • Issue 2348 - Combobox to choose Matplotlib backend
  • Issue 2347 - Add shortcuts to move to next/previous line in the Editor
  • Issue 2340 - SublimeText-like file switching widget
  • Issue 2317 - Object Inspector Text on Mac OS X is Misleading
  • Issue 2313 - 'NoneType' is not iterable in introspection/fallback_plugin.py
  • Issue 2308 - Python console stops running after first execution
  • Issue 2307 - Enhancement: Add check for updates and allow for autoupdating inside spyder
  • Issue 2306 - Enhancement: Add restart functionality to spyder.
  • Issue 2305 - Profiling error
  • Issue 2300 - Unable to start my Spyder
  • Issue 2289 - Disable icons in menus on Mac OS X
  • Issue 2282 - Incorrect setting of Qt API n°2
  • Issue 2277 - "TypeError: decoding Unicode is not supported" when debugging
  • Issue 2275 - Can not report issue from dev version
  • Issue 2274 - Can not start spyder under python2 because guidata doesn't support PyQt5
  • Issue 2267 - Move Conda Package Manager to its own repo
  • Issue 2251 - Spyder crashing on very long output
  • Issue 2250 - IPython 3.0 is showing a deprecation warning in the Internal Console
  • Issue 2249 - TypeError: 'method' object is not connected: self.timer.timeout.disconnect(self.show_time)
  • Issue 2248 - ImportError: No module named 'conda_api_q'
  • Issue 2235 - Error when running Spyder with Python 2 and PyQt5
  • Issue 2231 - Master has issues when plotting graphs through matplotlib in Python consoles
  • Issue 2213 - Show absolute and relative (to the current file in Editor) images in Object inspector
  • Issue 2210 - Icons as vector graphics to support retina displays
  • Issue 2204 - Windows: something is preventing "File" and "Edit" menus being clicked
  • Issue 2141 - File list management broken in master
  • Issue 2125 - Removal of keyboard shortcut causes errors to be thrown
  • Issue 2117 - Add missing methods to SpyderPluginMixin
  • Issue 2096 - Feature Request: Add option to lock window/pane layout
  • Issue 2083 - Spyder stopped working with Qt4.6
  • Issue 2061 - Spyder cannot load matplotlib if the latter tries to use PyQt5
  • Issue 2047 - Provide Keyboard Shortcut for Save As
  • Issue 2024 - Add folders with subfolders with path manager
  • Issue 2010 - runfile arguments with spaces
  • Issue 2001 - inserting line break in code line does not align well on next line
  • Issue 1966 - Add fallback syntax highlighter using Pygments autodetection
  • Issue 1940 - Add search functionality for keyboard shortcuts
  • Issue 1924 - Add interactive tutorials
  • Issue 1923 - Bug when changing output and input prompts in the IPython console
  • Issue 1876 - Editor: Move suggested completion item to top of window
  • Issue 1850 - Calltip traceback while using Jedi
  • Issue 1761 - F5 (run) saves editor file, but F10 (profile) does not
  • Issue 1749 - Cycle tabs via Ctrl-PageUp/PageDown
  • Issue 1394 - Let the user select his/her own localization settings
  • Issue 1387 - Integrate post mortem debugging (like IEP)
  • Issue 1335 - Add option for naming the custom layouts
  • Issue 1239 - Include a package manager
  • Issue 1221 - Spyder doesn't use Native OS X fullscreen
  • Issue 1212 - Add keyboard shortcuts for beginning of line and end of line
  • Issue 1001 - How to change UI language
  • Issue 729 - Enable assigning shortcuts for cursor navigation on the Editor
  • Issue 494 - Need to hit Enter to change a keyboard shortcut (unintuitive)
  • Issue 478 - Slash does not work as keyboard shortcut key
  • Issue 404 - Spyder becomes unresponsive while loading a large source file
  • Issue 195 - Backspace (\b) and carriage return (\r) characters are not printed correctly in the console

In this release 99 issues were closed

Pull requests

  • PR 2847 - Use High dpi pixmaps
  • PR 2838 - Import spyplugins only if there's a valid spec/module
  • PR 2831 - Remove external dependencies
  • PR 2826 - Remove imports from widgets/init because they are making Spyder crash
  • PR 2825 - Fix tests in Travis after a recent update of conda-build
  • PR 2813 - Test spyplugins widgets on AppVeyor and other minor fixes
  • PR 2810 - Restore the insertion of the "(" character when parameter close_parentheses_enabled is False
  • PR 2808 - Make F10 (profile) save the current file before running
  • PR 2800 - Fix problems in AppVeyor and Travis
  • PR 2786 - Move the spyder script to the right place if it isn't present in the site Scripts directory
  • PR 2784 - Fix runfile argument parsing error by using shlex
  • PR 2778 - Use Appveyor to test on Windows
  • PR 2777 - Fix important errors in Travis
  • PR 2776 - Rename spyderlib.widgets.editors to spyderlib.widgets.variableexplorer
  • PR 2774 - Add dependencies to pip
  • PR 2767 - Fix arrayeditor import error in PyQt5
  • PR 2762 - Start testing with PyQt5
  • PR 2761 - Test Spyder with Python 3.5
  • PR 2758 - Fix failing fallback_plugin tests and add to modules_test
  • PR 2752 - Test widgets in Travis
  • PR 2750 - Improved copying and selection behaviour of array editor
  • PR 2747 - Don't use bootstrap on Travis
  • PR 2746 - Move Variable Explorer widgets and utility libraries to its own namespace: widgets/varexp
  • PR 2741 - Get rid of the last shim warning with IPython/Jupyter 4
  • PR 2740 - Read correctly the run config for profiling
  • PR 2739 - Fix collapse/expand buttons in profiler widget
  • PR 2718 - Fix issue with qtawesome fonts not rendering on OS X
  • PR 2702 - Fix tabbar issue in OSX
  • PR 2692 - Add tab completions for PathCombobox
  • PR 2691 - Fixed PyQt5 detection without QT_API env var
  • PR 2687 - Opt out of certificate verification on check for updates
  • PR 2673 - Fix single item completion
  • PR 2671 - Test module importing on Travis
  • PR 2602 - Revert auto open parens on completion
  • PR 2594 - Import HelperToolButton from helperwidgets.py in arraybuilder
  • PR 2590 - Redesign file switcher (a la Sublime Text)
  • PR 2587 - Homogenize History Pane UI
  • PR 2585 - Homogenize Object inspector UI
  • PR 2584 - Homogenize variable explorer UI
  • PR 2583 - Homogenize file explorer UI
  • PR 2582 - Move MessageCheckBox widget from workers to helperwidgets.py
  • PR 2577 - Make "copy" work better with numpy arrays
  • PR 2576 - Fix issues in Python3/PyQt5.5
  • PR 2575 - Reorganize repo: grouped config files inside spyderlib/config
  • PR 2565 - Change plugins directory to spyplugins and make it a namespace package
  • PR 2559 - Fix default layout dockwidget on first Spyder start
  • PR 2547 - Fix resetting IPython custom exception hook
  • PR 2537 - fix misspelled extension
  • PR 2533 - Spyder 3 icon theme changes
  • PR 2523 - Keyboard shortcut editor enhancements
  • PR 2511 - New Spyder 3 icons for run-cell and run-cell inplace
  • PR 2504 - Update Spyder 3 icon theme: vertical alignment of maximize/unmaximize
  • PR 2501 - Make blank space less apparent.
  • PR 2492 - proof read tutorial.rst and removed several typos
  • PR 2489 - Remove warning message associated to language on Linux
  • PR 2488 - Improve appearance of options inside the preferences dialog
  • PR 2480 - Enable standard icons
  • PR 2457 - Return default language in case no locale is found
  • PR 2445 - Fix handling of jedi completions for jedi 0.9
  • PR 2426 - Add option to toggle toolbars visibility
  • PR 2425 - Add option in preferences to show/hide status bar
  • PR 2423 - Reset spyder and restart from within running application
  • PR 2412 - Open preferences dialog even if a plugin raises errors
  • PR 2410 - Print git revision and branch in bootstrap.py instead of mercurial
  • PR 2409 - Fix error when trying an empty complete in internal console
  • PR 2405 - Avoid exception when the Editor is floating and users are trying to get completions
  • PR 2391 - Fix #2390, completions in python console
  • PR 2382 - Allow the last two lines in a file to be switched
  • PR 2371 - Automatically add parens for function completions
  • PR 2369 - Add drag support for dockwidgets sharing same position
  • PR 2367 - New KeySequence Editor for Keyboard Shortcut Preferences
  • PR 2366 - Update Path.py to version 7.3
  • PR 2357 - Fix some completion issues on the Editor (issue #2352)
  • PR 2349 - Add support for language selection in preferences
  • PR 2345 - Add lock/unlock option for panes
  • PR 2337 - Add Icons to Completions
  • PR 2331 - Finish Introduction tour
  • PR 2328 - README.md running from source is a killer feature
  • PR 2322 - Make completions scroll to top of list
  • PR 2321 - Add a check for updates method
  • PR 2319 - Handle a connection abort error on shutdown
  • PR 2318 - Fix Object inspector message for OSX
  • PR 2316 - Use empty string instead of None for fallback. Fixes #2313.
  • PR 2312 - Fixes #2306: Add a restart method
  • PR 2309 - Replace obsolete setTextColor method by setForeground in qtreewidgetitem
  • PR 2301 - Run selection enabled even with empty selection
  • PR 2295 - Update CHANGELOG.md
  • PR 2291 - Add "func" to enaml highlighter
  • PR 2286 - Setting Qt API n°2 for all supported objects
  • PR 2281 - Add travis support for basic start of spyder
  • PR 2260 - New set of icons based on FontAwesome
  • PR 2253 - Try to avoid crashes on long output into Python console in a short time
  • PR 2243 - Don't add invalid paths to IMG_PATH
  • PR 2237 - Changed the IPython completion option from a checkbox to a combobox
  • PR 2226 - Add PyQt5 to Qt binding choices for Python consoles
  • PR 2222 - Update pep8 version shipped with spyder from 1.4.6 to 1.6.2
  • PR 2218 - Update AUTHORS
  • PR 2217 - Keybinding Enhancements
  • PR 2208 - Fix issue 2204 in tour - blocking file and edit menu
  • PR 2205 - Added Brazilian Portuguese translation
  • PR 2202 - Allow tab cycling with ctrl+pageup/down
  • PR 2198 - Fill in missing global run config options
  • PR 2189 - Provide a base implementation for closing_plugin

In this release 103 pull requests were merged

Version 2.3.9

New features

  • Preferences
    • Fix a crash when using certain versions of colorama (which is a Jedi dependency)
  • Python and IPython consoles
    • Filter a RuntimeWarning generated for DataFrames with nan values
  • Variable Explorer
    • Fix a freeze when binary strings can't be converted to unicode in Python 2
    • Fix a freeze with Numpy arrays containing strings

Bug fixes

Issues

  • Issue 3067 - File left open in sitecustomize when executing it in Python 3
  • Issue 3031 - Variable Explorer freezes when certain binary data is loaded
  • Issue 2991 - RuntimeWarning with pandas.dataframes that contain np.nan values
  • Issue 2984 - Can't access Preferences in spyder
  • Issue 2983 - Freeze while assigning data from numpy array when the data is a string

In this release 5 issues were closed

Version 2.3.8

New features

  • Python and IPython consoles
    • Fix a sitecustomize error when using Matplotlib 1.5 with Python 2 on Linux
  • Variable Explorer
    • Add support for Pandas Series when using Pandas 0.17+
    • Fix a freeze when creating empty DataFrames in Python 2
    • Fix a freeze when working with big Numpy recarray's
  • Under the hood
    • Avoid startup crashes when there are errors importing Numpy, SciPy or Pillow

Bug fixes

Issues

  • Issue 2819 - Spyder fails to start because of an error with scipy
  • Issue 2815 - Variable explorer is not recognizing Pandas Series objects
  • Issue 2793 - Connecting to kernel fails because of update to Matplotlib 1.5
  • Issue 2791 - DataFrame with no rows gives error when trying to view it
  • Issue 2783 - Spyder freezes on assigning a fits table data
  • Issue 2744 - Spyder hangs when creating an empty DataFrame on Python 2

In this release 6 issues were closed

Version 2.3.7

New features

  • Editor
    • Remove support for Jedi 0.9 because it was causing crashes
  • Variable Explorer
    • Fix crashes and freezes when working with DataFrames on Python 2
  • Under the hodd
    • Restore support for PySide

Bug fixes

Issues

  • Issue 2709 - IPython console error when trying to use SymPy
  • Issue 2693 - README should link to manual
  • Issue 2689 - "Resize" button in variable explorer chops off the array
  • Issue 2684 - Applications directory link is broken in Spyder 2.3.6 dmg's
  • Issue 2680 - "Close all files" hangs Spyder
  • Issue 2661 - Conda package manager is packed in 2.3.6 win32 distribution leading to errors
  • Issue 2659 - Crash while getting completions of DataFrames on the Editor because of Jedi 0.9
  • Issue 2654 - Creating DataFrames in Python or IPython consoles make Spyder 2.3.6 to hang
  • Issue 2649 - PySide can not be used on 2.3.6
  • Issue 2296 - Line numbers misaligned when zooming and scrolling in Mac
  • Issue 2036 - Code analysis and tooltips are not displayed in Ubuntu

In this release 11 issues were closed

Pull requests

  • PR 2650 - Failed sip import blocks fallback to PySide

In this release 1 pull requests were merged

Version 2.3.6

New features

  • IPython Console
    • Make it fully compatible with IPython/Jupyter 4.0
  • Variable Explorer
    • Don't refresh it when focused to avoid slow downs when working with big data
    • Add variable name to DataFrame editor
    • Fix several crashes and freezes when working with DataFrames
  • Under the hood
    • Use PyQt4 API #2 by default (API #1 is not supported anymore). This is necessary to support IPython/Jupyter 4.0

Bug fixes

Issues

  • Issue 2625 - Multiple untitled files generate at close
  • Issue 2614 - Indenting at the first position in file fails/crashes
  • Issue 2608 - Crash after update IPython to 4.0
  • Issue 2596 - Call tips and auto completion tips go out of screen on a second monitor
  • Issue 2593 - Having a lof of data in the Variable explorer slows down Spyder considerably
  • Issue 2566 - Spyder crash on launch with Babel 2.0/Python 3.4
  • Issue 2560 - List of pandas dataframes in variable explorer slows down Spyder
  • Issue 2517 - Variable explorer auto-refreshes after kernel restarts
  • Issue 2514 - DataFrames with headers that contain BOM utf-8 data are freezing/crashing Spyder (in Python 2)
  • Issue 2491 - Spyder crashes when displaying DataFrames with duplicate column names in the Variable Explorer
  • Issue 2413 - Don't ask to confirm exit on default untitled files
  • Issue 2315 - Display object name in DataFrame editor

In this release 12 issues were closed

Pull requests

  • PR 2639 - Fix missing exception on Windows when importing data on the Variable Explorer
  • PR 2617 - Show call tips at right position when there are multiple screens
  • PR 2615 - Fix error when indenting on the first line of a file

In this release 3 pull requests were merged

Version 2.3.5.2

Note: Versions 2.3.5 and 2.3.5.1 have serious startup bugs on Windows and Mac respectively. Hence they are not listed here.

New features

  • Editor
    • Add support for Jedi 0.9
  • IPython Console
    • Add initial support for IPython/Jupyter 4.0
  • Main Window
    • Improve how Spyder looks in MacOS X
    • Several fixes to prevent startup crashes

Bug fixes

Issues

  • Issue 2468 - 'Connect to existing kernel' fails if json file not in PWD
  • Issue 2466 - No Notification of Running Instance
  • Issue 2463 - Failure to preserve Matplotlib backend when using symbolic math
  • Issue 2456 - Launching IPython console fails because of errors importing Pandas or Matplotlib
  • Issue 2452 - os.system causes TypeError in Python 3
  • Issue 2448 - Spyder crashes using Variable Explorer with BeautifulSoup
  • Issue 2446 - When importing putting two periods in a row produces an error in a Python console
  • Issue 2363 - Spyder fails to start because of problems with lockfile
  • Issue 2356 - Block comment incorporating whitespace excludes last line
  • Issue 2341 - IPython console: "sre_constants.error: unbalanced parenthesis" while typing
  • Issue 2314 - Cell highlighting not updated after closing the FindReplace widget
  • Issue 2302 - Closing all files in editor shouldn't leave it empty
  • Issue 2299 - IPython preference "Automatically load Pylab and Numpy Modules" not followed
  • Issue 2298 - Cannot stop executing when runing a flask app with debug=True
  • Issue 2285 - Copying from Spyder and pasting into LibreOffice displays strange comments
  • Issue 2228 - Shortcut to run cells on Mac is not working
  • Issue 2188 - can't run win_post_install from pip
  • Issue 2171 - Spyder Mac apps (for Python 2 and 3) hang on startup with OSX 10.9.5
  • Issue 2028 - Background color of theme is not set properly on Mac OSX
  • Issue 1957 - Python 3 Mac app can't start Python or IPython consoles
  • Issue 1844 - "Set as current console's working directory" button not working on Python 3
  • Issue 1615 - Mac app - Matplotlib does not work with Canopy

In this release 22 issues were closed

Pull requests

  • PR 2486 - Stop using IPython.lib.kernel 0.13.2 shim and add initial support for Jupyter
  • PR 2484 - Remove unnecessary changes to detected kernel json file when connecting to external kernels
  • PR 2434 - Match for pylint when parsing pylint version
  • PR 2411 - Improve github issue template
  • PR 2377 - Fix the fact that spyder_win_post_install.py can't be run from pip
  • PR 2293 - Hide menu icons on Mac OS X
  • PR 2247 - Add support to run Python programs on xfce and xterm external terminals
  • PR 2216 - Fix broken png files: libpng 1.6.2 and newer has stricter iCCP rules

In this release 8 pull requests were merged

Version 2.3.4

New features

  • Debugging
    • After pressing the Debug button (or Ctrl+F5) move to the first breakpoint
  • IPython Console
    • Drop support for Sympy versions less than 0.7.3
  • Python Console
    • Remove support to run system commands with ! (like !diff)
  • Editor
    • Accept drops from compressed files on Windows

Bug fixes

Issues

  • Issue 2259 - spyder crashes if ipython installed but not pygments
  • Issue 2257 - Cannot plot inline in IPython console on Linux
  • Issue 2252 - Update French translations for 2.3.4
  • Issue 2245 - Importing a module with debugger causes "TypeError: decoding Unicode is not supported"
  • Issue 2239 - SyntaxErrors with Python 3.2
  • Issue 2234 - Object Inspector is not showing "No documentation available" for objects without docstring
  • Issue 2227 - IPython does not work with brewed or virtualenv Python(s) in MacOSX
  • Issue 2223 - Spyder2.3.3 Code completion breaks
  • Issue 2207 - Spyder's WM_CLASS is empty, resulting in unexpected behavior for task managers
  • Issue 2203 - Code completion issue with Jedi
  • Issue 2197 - IPython consoles are not named correctly when connecting to existing kernels and passing the full kernel path
  • Issue 2158 - runfile with path containing apostrophes (quotes) will not work
  • Issue 2151 - Long NumPy arrays throw off errors
  • Issue 2146 - Special character "!" is not processed correctly when debugging in Python consoles
  • Issue 2081 - Spyder crashes on Windows because of non-ascii chars in working directory
  • Issue 2058 - Don't execute external commands (!) when running pdb in python consoles
  • Issue 2034 - Execute until first breakpoint when pressing the Debug button
  • Issue 2032 - Dragging (not dropping) file from 7zip over spyder window causes TypeError in dragEnterEvent
  • Issue 1952 - spyderlib.utils.external overrides modules for script execution
  • Issue 1948 - spyder 2.3 ipython console startup code or file not working
  • Issue 1856 - Running in external system terminals is not working on Windows and Python 3
  • Issue 1845 - Spyder crashes on launch trying to load the project config file (.spyderproject)
  • Issue 1568 - raw_input borks with '!'
  • Issue 1529 - Plot A List Of Floats In Variable Explorer Not Possible
  • Issue 1380 - Problems with sitecustomize because of pickleshare library
  • Issue 1366 - "Highlight occurrences" setting is lost after IDE restart
  • Issue 1359 - Mac app - Sometimes it's not possible to get the user env vars
  • Issue 1321 - The PYTHONPATH manager on the Mac app does not work with the EPD64 interpreter
  • Issue 1151 - Ctrl-C doesn't copy to clipboard in object inspector

In this release 29 issues were closed

Pull requests

  • PR 2255 - Update French translations
  • PR 2242 - Improve message for no docstring
  • PR 2233 - catch a reason to crash on startup
  • PR 2224 - Fix a bug in completion if callback value is not converted to string
  • PR 2219 - Open configuration file with utf-8 encoding on Windows and Python 2
  • PR 2214 - Fix zlib segmentation fault in Anaconda 3.4 Linux

In this release 6 pull requests were merged

Version 2.3.3

New features

  • Editor
    • Use the Jedi library to do code completions
    • Add Ctrl+= as a shortcut to do Zoom in and Ctrl+0 to reset zoom
    • Add an option to show blank spaces, under the Source menu. There is also an option to make this permanent under Preferences > Editor.
  • IPython Console
    • Don't print DataFrames as html tables because this won't be supported since IPython 3.0
    • Drop support for IPython 0.13
    • Support the upcoming 3.0 version
    • Add Ctrl+T as shortcut to open new consoles
    • Simplify how consoles are named
  • Variable Explorer
    • More optimizations to handle big DataFrames and NumPy arrays (i.e. with more than 1e6 elements).
  • Main Window
    • Add Ctrl+W and Ctrl+F4 to close tabs in all platforms
    • Show shortcuts to move to each pane in View > Panes

Bug fixes

  • Issue 670 - Visual help for indentation: draw spaces and tabs
  • Issue 987 - Allow the file explorer to open any file into the editor as text
  • Issue 1213 - Augment or replace rope with Jedi
  • Issue 1461 - Kill button 'clicked' signal is connected but never disconnected on the python shell
  • Issue 1469 - Add support to get code completions for compiled modules (e.g. OpenCV)
  • Issue 1484 - Debug ignores breakpoints, if there's no ASCII characters in a file path
  • Issue 1574 - Creating file gives TypeError on Python 3
  • Issue 1718 - Keyboard shortcut to come back to normal zoom level
  • Issue 1808 - Shortcuts to create and close IPython consoles
  • Issue 1911 - Transition to git and github
  • Issue 1930 - Evaluating cell or selection in Python consoles takes ages
  • Issue 1946 - Spyder with GTK/GTKAgg backend on GNOME freezes
  • Issue 1987 - Matplotlib backend in Mac can't be changed when using PySide
  • Issue 1990 - exception in spyder internal console when typing 'exit(' in editor
  • Issue 1993 - autocomplete in the middle of a word
  • Issue 2006 - Your IPython frontend and kernel versions are incompatible
  • Issue 2019 - Winpdb (F7) doesn't work in Python 3
  • Issue 2022 - TkAgg backend unresponsive window on Linux and OS X
  • Issue 2040 - Improve inline backend options
  • Issue 2049 - Pandas Dataframe not opening in Variable Explorer
  • Issue 2064 - "About spyder" and "Report issue ..." output errors
  • Issue 2072 - Unable to bring up tutorial
  • Issue 2074 - Profiler - sorting by Total Time sorts by string order, not numeric order
  • Issue 2080 - Bug on Variable Explorer while viewing DataFrames, with timestamp columns
  • Issue 2082 - Missing py27 dmg download
  • Issue 2092 - PYTHON pathmanager on windows 8 does not work properly
  • Issue 2105 - Spyder 2.3.2 freezes when viewing big collections on the Variable Explorer
  • Issue 2108 - UnicodeDecodeError in the Internal console when trying to run a file with non-ascii chars and synatx errors in it
  • Issue 2109 - Go to definition menu item inactive with rope present.
  • Issue 2126 - iPython console rendering of pandas.DataFrame.repr_html() note in changelog
  • Issue 2139 - Small typo in Help : Plotting examples
  • Issue 2143 - Closing takes a long time with Python 3.4
  • Issue 2160 - UnicodeDecodeError when inspecting pandas DataFrame in ipython console
  • Issue 2190 - Update French translations for 2.3.3

Version 2.3.2

New features

  • Editor
    • Improve cells visualization
    • Add support for drag selection and improve look of line number area
    • Open on it any text file present in the File Explorer
    • View and edit IPython notebooks as Json files
    • Syntax highlighting for Json and Yaml files
  • Variable Explorer:
    • Import csv files as DataFrames (if Pandas is present)
    • Improve browsing speed for NumPy arrays and DataFrames with more than 1e5 rows
  • Debugging
    • Make it easier to set conditions through the Breakpoints pane
  • IPython Console
    • Add a stop button to easily stop computations
  • Python Console
    • Fixes various issues with unicode

Bug fixes

  • Issue 556 - Deal with DOS/Windows encoding
  • Issue 681 - Allow printing Unicode characters
  • Issue 875 - Add indication that console is busy
  • Issue 883 - Open all text files in the Editor from the File Explorer
  • Issue 1200 - Strings with accents and variable explorer
  • Issue 1546 - Spyder issues with unicode under windows
  • Issue 1767 - Some support for the ipynb format
  • Issue 1774 - can't open preferences or interpreter after changing path to intepreter
  • Issue 1789 - Getting warning "WARNING: Unexpected error discovering local network interfaces: 'SysOutput' object has no attribute 'flush"
  • Issue 1809 - Shortcut to get to file explorer
  • Issue 1812 - Erros when pressing Tab key in the Editor
  • Issue 1830 - Don't modify python default system encoding in the console
  • Issue 1832 - Select line via line numbers
  • Issue 1847 - Preferences panel don't appear
  • Issue 1849 - Support yaml files in editor
  • Issue 1859 - Latest rope breaks the Object Inspector
  • Issue 1874 - Wheel mouse scrolling not enabled in numberlinemarker or flag area
  • Issue 1877 - Cell higlighting and scrollbar
  • Issue 1878 - Cell highlighting on startup
  • Issue 1891 - Sorting Variable explorer gives a traceback
  • Issue 1892 - Spyder crashes because pyzmq is missing
  • Issue 1949 - Spyder 'support for graphics' should not require pylab
  • Issue 1953 - Please do not break API in minor releases
  • Issue 1958 - Disable Variable Explorer auto-refresh feature by default
  • Issue 1961 - opening bracket in editor or console: focus switches to internal console (which also display an error)
  • Issue 1970 - Connecting to an IPython kernel through ssh hangs if you have never connected to hostname before
  • Issue 1973 - Pandas DataFrame in variable explorer can crash the app if it gets out of memory
  • Issue 1975 - Improve confusing "UMD has deleted" message
  • Issue 1978 - 'Edit' context menu in Variable Explorer should work in all columns
  • Issue 1979 - Spyder crashes or hangs when creating some pandas DataFrame's
  • Issue 1982 - Middle mouse button CUTS text in editor in linux
  • Issue 2004 - Open sys.stdin with the right encoding in the console for Python 2
  • Issue 2005 - Error when running files in folders with UTF-8 in path
  • Issue 2008 - Wrong path to favicon.ico
  • Issue 2015 - Printing large pandas DataFrame clears iPython terminal
  • Issue 2033 - Link to new WinPython site
  • Issue 2042 - IPython console doens't work with Pygments 2.0rc1
  • Issue 2044 - Autocomplete in the editor appends the completed variable onto the preceding expression if there's a token in between

Version 2.3.1

New features

  • Variable Explorer
    • Support for Pandas DataFrame's and TimeSerie's types
    • Support for Numpy 3D arrays
    • Drag and drop works for all its supported file types (e.g. images, mat files, json files, etc)
  • Editor
    • F9 runs the current line under the cursor if nothing is selected
    • Focus remains on it after evaluating cells and selections (an option was added to return to the old behavior)
  • IPython console
    • Connect to external kernels through ssh
  • Object Inspector
    • Add a tutorial for beginners
  • Main Window
    • Improve style on Mac

Bug fixes

  • Issue 93 - Variable explorer: allow array editor to deal with arrays with more than 2 dimensions
  • Issue 1160 - Variable Explorer: add support for pandas objects
  • Issue 1305 - mayavi plot hangs when IPython graphics backend is inline (default)
  • Issue 1319 - Spyder is not getting its taskbar icon right in Win 7/8
  • Issue 1445 - Linux style middle mouse button paste not executed in console
  • Issue 1530 - Wrong encoding for date in pylint widget
  • Issue 1590 - Add numpy matrices as a supported type to the Variable Explorer
  • Issue 1604 - spyder 2.2.5 freezes with netCDF4-python
  • Issue 1627 - Run selection (F9) changes focus to Python interpreter, but ex-Matlab users expect the focus to remain on the editor
  • Issue 1670 - Provide a "Run current line" feature
  • Issue 1690 - Feature request: connect to existing IPython kernel over ssh
  • Issue 1699 - Option to disable middle button paste
  • Issue 1783 - The new cell delimiter when converting a notebook to python file is # In[*]
  • Issue 1863 - Ctrl-C doesn't work in a restarted IPython console
  • Issue 1893 - Matplotlib plots do not display correctly in 2.3.0 (when running in dedicated python interpreter)

Version 2.3.0

New features

  • Python 3 support
  • Editor
    • Use the Tab key to do code completions
    • Highlight cells, i.e. portions of a file delimited by separators of the form # %%
    • First-class support for Enaml files
    • Syntax highlighting for Julia files
    • Use Shift+Tab to show the signature corresponding to a function/method while it's been called
    • Do code completions using the tokens (or words) found in a file
    • Token-based completions work for any file type supported by the Editor
    • Add a new tooltip widget (borrowed from the IPython project) to better handle how to show function signatures
  • IPython console
    • Assign the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+I to move to it
    • Open a console by default at startup
    • Give visual feedback when opening a console
    • Show kernel error messages in the client tab
  • Object Inspector
    • Add an intro message to explain how to use it
    • New style based on the Bootswatch Cerulean theme
  • Main Window
    • Reorganize several menus
  • Under the hood
    • Improve startup time
    • Develop a new way to update configuration defaults (that doesn't involve resetting user settings)

Bug fixes

  • Issue 696 - Use Tab to do code completion in the Editor
  • Issue 944 - Add Python 3 support
  • Issue 1068 - Shortcut key to switch to IPython console
  • Issue 1082 - IPython console: multiprocessing print output goes to kernel not client
  • Issue 1152 - Use the Editor/Console fonts for the code completion widget
  • Issue 1243 - Bootstrap fails under Python 3.2
  • Issue 1356 - IPython ImportError by not using absolute_import
  • Issue 1374 - IPython 1.0dev is giving "ImportError: No module named kernelmanager"
  • Issue 1402 - Execute pyflakes, pep8, ... with the Python interpreter specified in Preferences>Console
  • Issue 1420 - Deactivate pager by default in the iPython console (because it's perceived as a freeze)
  • Issue 1424 - Object inspector is broken for external console
  • Issue 1429 - Windows installer for Python 3.3 doesn't finish correctly
  • Issue 1437 - Corrupted contents when saving non-unicode .py files with non-ASCII characters
  • Issue 1441 - Spyder has several problems to start on Windows because pywin32 is not installed
  • Issue 1465 - scientific_startup is defining print_function for Python 2.X interactive consoles
  • Issue 1466 - unicode_literals breaks PySide
  • Issue 1467 - pyflakes flags print "" on python2 systems
  • Issue 1471 - IPython is not enabled in 2.3 (because of mismatched IPython version)
  • Issue 1473 - IPython kernel can't be started, complaining that 'sys' doesn't have attribute 'argv'
  • Issue 1475 - Plotting from the Variable Explorer is not working for IPython consoles
  • Issue 1479 - Opening another file in a running Spyder from the terminal fails in Python 3
  • Issue 1496 - Ctrl+C don't interrupt computations in either the Console or IPython console
  • Issue 1513 - "Replace all" crashes (not always, but regularly)
  • Issue 1514 - Python 3 / Spyder 2.3 : impossible to run temporary script in current interpreter
  • Issue 1517 - Console/IPython console reappear each time Spyder starts
  • Issue 1519 - Old .spyder.ini is not copied to spyder.ini
  • Issue 1528 - Error while shutting down Spyder
  • Issue 1540 - Exception instead of dialog box
  • Issue 1542 - Braces/Parentheses/Brackets Highlighting is broken with v2.3.0dev6 on Windows/Python 3
  • Issue 1545 - Win32 "Spyder Documentation" fails to open
  • Issue 1556 - Show cells in the outline explorer
  • Issue 1562 - Make Windows installers create a desktop shortcut for Spyder
  • Issue 1567 - Accept newer versions of pyflakes
  • Issue 1618 - Please provide a way to not compile the documentation during the build process
  • Issue 1619 - Python3 invalid syntax in figureoptions.py
  • Issue 1623 - Mac app: Editor slow on mac after os update to mavericks
  • Issue 1628 - Profiler runs but doesn't show the results
  • Issue 1631 - Documentation problem with numpy.concatenate
  • Issue 1646 - Different numerical results from "runfile" and "execfile"
  • Issue 1649 - Variable Explorer does not show complex number variables
  • Issue 1653 - 2 popup windows during lauch
  • Issue 1664 - Window gone transparent after splash screen
  • Issue 1675 - Redifing any for numpy.any in the console
  • Issue 1692 - Minor problem with the new Tab completion functionality
  • Issue 1695 - Add "psutil" to the list of optional dependancies
  • Issue 1696 - Check marks in display > windows menu are unchecked by moving plugins
  • Issue 1697 - Variable explorer freezes spyder
  • Issue 1701 - pip install spyder does not work any longer (pip version >=1.5)
  • Issue 1715 - debian lintian4py check
  • Issue 1716 - Add new icon and scripts for python3 in Linux
  • Issue 1723 - .pyx Comment and syntax color error in editor
  • Issue 1731 - Support Julia files (.jl) in editor
  • Issue 1735 - Small correction in French translations
  • Issue 1745 - Fix over-aggressive code completion on dot
  • Issue 1746 - Errors when running empty cells
  • Issue 1752 - Unable to read Spyder Documentation. F1 key does not work
  • Issue 1753 - A fix for the behavior of spyderlib\utils\system.py on Windows
  • Issue 1763 - Editor with auto-closing bracket enabled : unabled to type "0" before ")"
  • Issue 1772 - Fix download links on the main page
  • Issue 1786 - problem of icon with spyder 2.3.0 beta4
  • Issue 1793 - Highlight current cell slows down the Editor on big files
  • Issue 1794 - Mouse pointer on vertical line
  • Issue 1819 - Quick layout change unsuccessful
  • Issue 1828 - QAction::eventFilter: Ambiguous shortcut overload: Ctrl+W
  • Issue 1829 - Keyboard shortcuts, Reset to default values errors
  • Issue 1836 - [CTRL]+F4 does not close tabs
  • Issue 1879 - Can't start bootstrap.py with pyqt
  • Issue 1881 - Bootstrap.py won't start with python3

Version 2.2.5

Bug fixes

  • Issue 1322 - Problems with scientific_startup in other interpreters from the one Spyder is running on
  • Issue 1337 - Mac app - Update to Qt 4.8.4 for HDPI
  • Issue 1450 - IPython kernel cpu usage increases with time
  • Issue 1520 - LinuxColor for ipython plugin
  • Issue 1551 - /doc/installation.rst: update Arch Linux package link
  • Issue 1560 - spyder 2.2.3 incompatible with pylint 0.25.1 on Windows
  • Issue 1564 - Fix several Editor cell problems
  • Issue 1578 - Typo in your 'About Spyder...' dialog.
  • Issue 1581 - Cannot launch Spyder 2.2.4 installed from DMG on Mac OS X.
  • Issue 1589 - Mention what types of objects our Variable Explorer support in our docs
  • Issue 1595 - Fail to start an ipython console when variable explorer autorefresh is turned off in Preferences
  • Issue 1596 - Spelling mistake in dialog ('loose' --> 'lose')

Other Changes

  • Update our Mac application to the latest versions of Python, Qt and PyQt (now it's based in Homebrew).
  • Several important compatibility fixes for PySide.
  • Improve our support for IPython 1.0+.

Version 2.2.4

Bug fixes

  • Issue 347 - Matplotlib hangs on Mac if using PySide
  • Issue 1265 - Create a Debug menu to easily show how to set breakpoints
  • Issue 1489 - Project Explorer does not load all projects in workspace.
  • Issue 1516 - Make Spyder compatible with both IPython 0.13 and 1.0
  • Issue 1531 - Pyflakes version check is looking for 0.5.0 only
  • Issue 1539 - /tmp/spyder is owned by the first user on the server to launch spyder

Other Changes

  • Make Spyder compatible with SymPy 0.7.3+
  • Add shortcuts to the tooltips of all toolbars
  • Make IPython Console work better if Matplotlib is not installed

Version 2.2.3

Bug fixes

  • Issue 634 - Debugging: Lingering break points
  • Issue 639 - Project Explorer: horizontal size issue (added an optional horizontal scrollbar. This option may be enabled/disabled in the widget context menu)
  • Issue 749 - Outline Explorer: Duplicate entries
  • Issue 852 - Implement matlab-like cell features
  • Issue 1388 - Add an "About Spyder dependencies" dialog box
  • Issue 1438 - "runfile" doesn't work correctly if unicode_literals has been imported (replaced backslashes by slashes in paths)
  • Issue 1515 - Add an option to use the same interpreter Spyder is running on as "Python executable" for external consoles
  • Issue 1522 - licenses of the images (especially the .png)
  • Issue 1526 - Build script (setup.py) includes the wrong version of pyflakes/rope in Windows installer
  • Issue 1527 - please include the LICENSE file in the source package

Other Changes

  • New "Run selection" (F9), "Run cell" (Ctrl+Enter) and "Run cell and advance" (Shift+Enter) actions in "Run" menu entry, as a replacement to the old "Run selection or block" and "Run block and advance" actions.
  • Added "Optional Dependencies" dialog box in "?" menu.
  • Editor: added Monokai and Zenburn syntax coloring schemes.
  • Keyboard shortcuts: removing deprecated shortcuts at startup. Otherwise, when renaming the name of a registered shortcut (in the code), the old shortcut will stay in Spyder configuration file and opening the Preferences dialog will show a shortcut conflict dialog box. In other words, shortcuts were added to configuration file when registered but never removed if they were removed from the registered shortcuts in the code (or if their context or name was renamed).
  • External console tabs: fixed history browsing with Ctrl+Tab and added Shift+Ctrl+Tab support.
  • Preferences>Console>Advanced: new option to switch between the default Python executable (i.e. the one used to run Spyder itself) and the custom Python executable that the user may choose freely. This change avoid side-effects when switching from a Python distribution to another on the same OS (with the same Spyder configuration file): many users do not change the Python executable and because of the way it was written in externalconsole.py, changing from a distribution of Python to another with the same Spyder config file could lead to an unexpected configuration (Spyder is executed with the new interpreter but scripts inside Spyder are executed with the old interpreter).
  • Run Icons: removed deprecated images, updated other images to the new design
  • setup.py/Windows installers: now building CHM documentation for Windows
  • SPYDER_DEBUG environment variable now supports 3 levels of debug mode:
    • SPYDER_DEBUG=0 or False: debug mode is off
    • SPYDER_DEBUG=1 or True: debug level 1 is on (internal console is disconnected)
    • SPYDER_DEBUG=2: debug level 2 is on (+ logging coms with external Python processes)
    • SPYDER_DEBUG=3: debug level 3 is on (+ enabling -v option in external Python processes and debugging editor)

Version 2.2.2

Bug fixes

  • Issue 1497 - Spyder 2.2.1 does not work with Python < 2.7
  • Issue 1498 - TypeError thrown by IPython Console when the pager is off
  • Issue 1499 - Console (Terminal) throws NotImplementedError for Home/End keys
  • Issue 1509 - Add support for javascript syntax highlighting
  • Issue 1510 - Problems with zooming in/out

Other Changes

  • Add new icons to the Run, Debug and Main toolbars
  • Update Pylint plugin to work with pylint 1.0
  • Add Ctrl/Cmd+[+,-] to zoom in/out in the Editor
  • Disable Crtl+MouseWheel to zoom in/out in Mac (See Issue 1509)

Version 2.2.1

Bug fixes

  • Issue 1231 - Some strange messages are printed in the terminal when Spyder is running
  • Issue 1318 - Mac app - Unable to use the keyboard when completion widget is displayed and the app loses focus
  • Issue 1331 - Git Bash: Spyder's script has wrong shebang
  • Issue 1333 - Spyder is unable to detect git if installed with msysgit (Microsoft Windows PC's)
  • Issue 1370 - Unit tests exceptions in IPython are displayed in its kernel tab
  • Issue 1395 - Mac App - Importing matplotlib fails on Snow Leopard due to incompatible version of libpng
  • Issue 1399 - Recommend to use pip instead of easy_install
  • Issue 1426 - Background colour of Object Inspector (docstring) in Rich Text mode is same as the window's
  • Issue 1439 - Update pil_patch to be compatible with Pillow
  • Issue 1449 - Spyder --light is not functioning
  • Issue 1470 - Preferences size is not saved when using PySide
  • Issue 1472 - matplotlib plot's docstring is not rendered correctly in the Object Inspector

Other Changes

  • All scientific libraries in our Mac application were updated to their latest releases.
  • The Run Settings dialog has now its own icon. Before it was the same as the Preferences pane one.
  • Update and improve our Installation instructions for all platforms.
  • Add support for Google TODO comments: "TODO([email protected]): blabla"

Version 2.2.0

New features

  • Better integration with IPython.
    • A dedicated preferences page from which you can set its most important options
    • An easy way to manage IPython kernels inside Spyder (i.e. interrupts and restarts).
    • Each console can be configured separately (which is not possible in IPython-qtconsole)
    • Each console is now connected to the Object Inspector and the History log.
    • Learn how to use IPython reading its documentation on the Object Inspector.
    • Find text in the console and pager using our Find Widget.
  • A new MacOS X Application
    • We now provide a DMG for simple drag and drop installation.
    • The App comes with its own interpreter, which has the main Python scientific libraries preinstalled: Numpy, SciPy, Matplotlib, IPython, Pandas, Sympy, Scikit-learn and Scikit-image.
  • A much improved debugging experience
    • A new debugger toolbar, quite similar in spirit to the one present in Matlab. It works with both Python and IPython consoles.
    • A new breakpoints widget, which lists all active breakpoints set in open or closed files.
    • Breakpoints are updated in the Python and IPython consoles after being added or removed from the Editor.
  • Several Editor improvements
    • Faster and more accurate code completions for the most important scientific packages
    • Zoom in and out with Ctrl + the mouse wheel
    • A new dark theme
    • Automatic insertion of colons
    • Automatic insertion of quotes
    • New syntax highlighters for Matlab, batch, ini, NSIS and IDL files.
  • A better looking and faster Object Inspector
    • Several improvements to its style.
    • It can now show mathematical equations written in Latex, using the MathJax Sphinx plugin.
    • Rich text docs are now rendered in a thread to avoid UI lookup.
  • Single instance mode
    • Users can now open Python scripts from their file explorer on the currently available instance.
    • Linux users can also open their files from the terminal.
  • Spanish translation of the interface

Bug fixes

  • Issue 318 - Create a widget to list all breakpoints
  • Issue 349 - Add "Run selection or current block" action to Editor's context menu
  • Issue 448 - Editor: disable code-related features inside comments (code completion, auto-indentation, ...)
  • Issue 466 - Can't use Spyder to open python scripts (.py files) from the terminal or the file explorer
  • Issue 554 - Improved debugger integration
  • Issue 609 - Debugging: Unsetting a breakpoint in the editor isn't reflected until you restart debugging entirely
  • Issue 650 - After deleting a directory set as working directory and changing to a new working directory the script won't run
  • Issue 687 - Indentation error when trying to "run selection" on simple indented code
  • Issue 697 - Create a DMG package for Spyder
  • Issue 764 - Jump to the next result when pressing Enter in search field
  • Issue 836 - Spyder is sometimes not detecting file changes from external editors
  • Issue 849 - Breakpoints are ignored sometimes
  • Issue 853 - Problems with code completion after adding submodules to ROPE_PREFS/extension_modules
  • Issue 865 - Run selection (F9) in IPython console 0.11+: problem with indented blank lines
  • Issue 940 - open_in_spyder not defined
  • Issue 955 - Breakpoints in debugger do not move correctly when editing code
  • Issue 971 - Add "Open with Spyder" entry to Windows File Explorer's context menu
  • Issue 994 - mathjax does not get installed properly
  • Issue 997 - Some docstrings are getting truncated in the object inspector
  • Issue 1008 - Fail on context menu call in project explorer when project files are inside symlinked dir
  • Issue 1018 - Menu locations, "Run Configurations" & "Preferences"
  • Issue 1026 - Decide the best strategy to comment selections on the Editor
  • Issue 1032 - Running a script from editor does not send runfile() correctly to IPython Qt plugin
  • Issue 1050 - First implementation of the "IPython Console" plugin (single instance version)
  • Issue 1051 - New IPython Console (Spyder 2.2+): add support for the %edit magic command
  • Issue 1054 - New IPython Console (Spyder 2.2+): update variable explorer after new prompt
  • Issue 1055 - New IPython Console (Spyder 2.2+): add support for history management
  • Issue 1056 - New IPython Console (Spyder 2.2+): add an option to customize In/Out prompts
  • Issue 1057 - New IPython Console (Spyder 2.2+): Add our FindReplace widget to every console
  • Issue 1058 - New IPython Console (Spyder 2.2+): Add Ctrl+I keyboard shortcut to send an object the Object Inspector
  • Issue 1059 - New IPython Console (Spyder 2.2+): drop support for IPython in external console
  • Issue 1061 - New IPython Console (Spyder 2.2+): add support for "Find in files" plugin
  • Issue 1062 - New IPython Console (Spyder 2.2+): add a dedicated section in documentation
  • Issue 1064 - Editor performance issue since revision d98df4092e16
  • Issue 1069 - Focus goes to kernel not client with pdb in IPython client
  • Issue 1078 - IPython Console: Cannot interrupt started processes
  • Issue 1079 - Can't input Unicode in Internal Console
  • Issue 1081 - ipython-qtconsole not listed as optional dependency in Ubuntu
  • Issue 1083 - Make Ipython qtconsole widget more intuitive
  • Issue 1085 - IPython console: sometimes files are executed in wrong IPython
  • Issue 1094 - Error message when trying to save a file
  • Issue 1095 - Preferences Dialog doesn't remember size
  • Issue 1101 - Interrupt (Ctrl+C) in the console does not work in Spyder on Mac Os X
  • Issue 1106 - Spyder console crashes when trying to type in console after running script
  • Issue 1112 - Opening a file from the linux command line
  • Issue 1128 - please remove pyflakes and rope from the .zip files
  • Issue 1136 - IPython console: cannot connect to external kernels
  • Issue 1138 - Rich text in object inspector mishandles some scipy docstrings
  • Issue 1163 - Improve the spyder.desktop file fo easier integration into Linux
  • Issue 1169 - Saving variables does not retain uppercase letters of variable names
  • Issue 1179 - Pylint "go to line" does not work with the additional dot in filename
  • Issue 1186 - scipy.weave doesn't work in the Mac app
  • Issue 1191 - Inconsistent behaviour of the Editor on code completion and object introspection
  • Issue 1199 - spyderlib/utils/windows.py has incorrect encoding
  • Issue 1201 - Let the user set the default filter when opening file
  • Issue 1210 - Enhancement: Create sphinx rich text docstrings in QThread
  • Issue 1226 - MacOS X App - Can't import libraries from other Python interpreters
  • Issue 1227 - Auto inserted colon causes pylint error
  • Issue 1229 - Which version of ipython is needed for Spyder 2.2.0?
  • Issue 1230 - Better handle for mathjax and jquery embeded libraries on linux systems
  • Issue 1232 - Cmd-Space is not showing code-completion options
  • Issue 1233 - ERROR and WARNING when compiling the documentation
  • Issue 1234 - Edit .enaml files as text file
  • Issue 1236 - Fix Qt Network Access warning messages that appear on the terminal
  • Issue 1241 - 'Remove block comment' is not working
  • Issue 1242 - Can't start spyder2.2 on Win 7, crashes upon saving .spyder.ini
  • Issue 1249 - "Run block" and "Run File" are not working for external IPython kernels
  • Issue 1250 - Spyder crashes on launch if the project explorer is used
  • Issue 1252 - Expansion of nodes on tree view undoes itself
  • Issue 1253 - Spyder is not detecting the presence of iPython 0.13.1rc2 nor IPython 1.0dev
  • Issue 1258 - Focusing the "Replace with:" Text Box causes the editor to jump to the next instance of the item that's in the find box
  • Issue 1261 - IPython kernel/clients: error when closing an IPython console
  • Issue 1266 - Let the user eliminate breakpoints from the "Breakpoints widget"
  • Issue 1269 - Dataloss when Spyder gets confused about which file goes with which editor tab
  • Issue 1271 - Find and replace by empty string
  • Issue 1272 - Fix code completion speed issues on the Editor
  • Issue 1275 - Spyderlib fails to start new IPython consoles, raises socket exception
  • Issue 1277 - Enthought Python Distribution and Spyder DMG are not working well on Mac OS X
  • Issue 1281 - Mac App - Spyder swallows AssertionErrors while executing a file
  • Issue 1285 - Object Inspector Crashes when Reloading Page
  • Issue 1286 - Broken links in Help
  • Issue 1287 - Saving file under different file name in split-window mode lets non-focused window jump to first file
  • Issue 1288 - Some rope_patch improvements
  • Issue 1296 - Clickable tracebacks in console are not working in PySide
  • Issue 1298 - Mac App - matplotlib is not detecting ffmpeg to create animations
  • Issue 1299 - pylint keeps opening same file at startup
  • Issue 1309 - Clicking on filename in structure widget sets the cursor at the beginning of the file
  • Issue 1314 - QPainter warnings when moving/undocking widgets in main window
  • Issue 1315 - Project not closing files associated with after closing it
  • Issue 1325 - Spyder cannot be re-opened on Windows if parent console is closed
  • Issue 1327 - Allow global options for Run Configuration
  • Issue 1344 - Mac App - Spyder crashed and can't be open again
  • Issue 1345 - Code Review Request: Update breakpoints during pdb sessions
  • Issue 1347 - The spyder.desktop has an wrong line
  • Issue 1353 - Error messages in internal console when rope is not installed
  • Issue 1363 - 2.2rc installation takes a long time because of sphinx dependency
  • Issue 1364 - No spyder.ico after installation on Windows
  • Issue 1369 - Using the subprocess.check_output function breaks compatibility with Python 2.5 and 2.6
  • Issue 1371 - Crash when adding text to multiline comment is CSS
  • Issue 1372 - SphinxThread might return AttributeError

Version 2.1.13.1

Bug fixes

  • Spyder startup: fixed PyQt minimum version requirement test (the old poor comparison algorithm was considering that v4.10 was older than v4.4...) (See Issue 1291)
  • Console: Matplotlib was always imported even when the Matplotlib's Patch option was not available (i.e. the Matplotlib installed version was not compatible with the patch). As a consequence, even when disabling every console advanced option in preferences, the preloaded module list was huge
  • Editor:
    • When closing Spyder with unsaved modified files, Spyder was asking confirmation as many times as there were editor windows. Only one confirmation is necessary because, with current editor design, all editor windows are synced.
    • When creating two new files, saving one of them will lead to temporarily mask the leading '*' indicating the fact that the other untitled file was not already saved. This is simply a display issue: internally, it is clear that the file is in a non-saved state and Spyder will ask for it to be saved when trying to close the file
    • Multiple windows: when saving a new untitled file, other editor windows were getting confused on file list order -- eventually leading to data loss
    • Open file dialog: default file type filter now matches the current file (See Issue 1201)
  • Fixed "PyQt Reference Guide" link

Other changes

  • Editor: Ctrl+MouseWheel is now zooming in/out the editor text size (see Issue 1270)
  • About dialog box: changed the "This project is part of Python(x,y)" part to more general words (which are also closer to the initial meaning of this sentence) including a citation of WinPython

Version 2.1.13

Bug fixes

  • Fixed Issue 1158: "pip install spyder" fails on non-Windows platforms due to a bug in pip installation process (missing spyderlib_win_postinstall.py script)
  • File Explorer/Windows/Fixed "remove tree" feature: added an error handler in shutil.rmtree to be able to remove a non-empty folder with shutil.rmtree is not working on Windows when it contains read-only files
  • (See Issue 1106) Fixed "error: unpack requires a string argument of length 8" related to socket communication between Spyder and the remote Python process
  • Editor:
    • After splitting horizontally or vertically the editor window, filenames were not synchronized when saving a file as another name (see Issue 1120)
    • Fixed error when trying to "Save as..." a file with extension to a file without any extension (see Issue 1183)
    • pep8 code analysis: a new line character was abusively added by Spyder to source code before analyzing it because it's necessary for pyflakes but it's not for pep8! (see Issue 1123)
    • Fixed UnboundLocalError when clicking on "Search/Replace" button if both search pattern and replace pattern fields are empty (see Issue 1188)
  • Pylint plugin/tree widget: "go to line" was not working when filename contained additionnal dots (see Issue 1179)
  • Fixed critical bug when an invalid/unsupported version of pyflakes is installed (see Issue 1181)
  • Editor/block comments: fixed remaining PyQt API v2 compatibility issues (see Issue 905)
  • Variable explorer: more flexible name fixing algorithm (even if it's not a good practice to use reference names with upper case letters, we do not remove them anymore) -- See Issue 1169

Other changes

  • Spyder about dialog box: added Python build architecture (32 or 64 bits)
  • Find in files: fixed default 'exclude pattern' which was accidently excluding all files starting with 'build' instead of simply excluding 'build' folders as intended
  • For the sake of consistency, now using single-clicks for activating entries of all tree widgets in Spyder ("Find in files" and "Pylint" are now consistent with the "Outline" explorer) -- See Issue 1180

Version 2.1.12

Bug fixes

  • Spyder settings: sometimes (virus protection?) the .ini file can't be written, and removing the .ini file before writing seems to help, as suggested here (see Issue 1086)
  • Fixed Home/End key behaviour inconsistency on MacOS X (See Issue 495)
  • Internal console: new option "Pop up internal console when errors were intercepted" -- default: False, which avoids loosing focus when a traceback is shown in the internal console... but features may also fail silently! (bugs could stay hidden a while before being taken care of) -- See Issue 1016
  • Fixed "TypeError: file_saved(long,long).emit(): argument 1 has unexpected type 'long'" error occuring on some Linux 32-bit platforms -- See Issue 1094
  • Console: find/replace widget "Search next/previous occurrence" feature was broken

Other changes

  • Portable version of Spyder (inside WinPython):
    • Spyder '?' menu: added documentation detection (.chm, .pdf) in sys.prefix\Doc (Windows-only)
    • Project explorer:
      • Handling errors when opening a workspace which has been moved
      • Workspace is now configured with relative paths, so it can be moved from a location to another and still be opened in Spyder
  • Windows: moved the functions hiding parent console to spyderlib/utils/windows.py

Version 2.1.11

Bug fixes

  • Critical bugs:
    • Editor (Issue 960): cannot open/save files from GUI (QFileDialog issue with PyQt4 v4.6)
  • General:
    • Spyder menu bar: fixed menu ordering issue with Ubuntu/Unity
    • All console widgets: Shell widget: fixed "Clear terminal" (Ctrl+L) shortcut
  • Console:
    • Cleaned up widget interactions after Python script execution (before this changeset, it was possible to send data to console, which not only was not needed but was generating disturbing errors in the internal console...)
  • Editor:
    • If user accept to fix "mixed end-of-line characters", when opening file, the current editor was set as "modified" (the tab title had a * at the end) instead of the newly created editor
    • "occurrence highlighting" was highlighting previous word even if there was a whitespace between cursor and this word
    • Code analysis thread manager: handling errors while executing threads
    • "Replace all" was not regrouping changes into a single undo/redo step
    • "Find/Replace": replacements were not done for case unsensitive searches
    • Position of the 79-chars edge line is now more accurate on Linux, the older processed position was inaccurate with some font size of the classic "DejaVu Sans Mono" monospace font
  • IPython:
    • Version detection was broken so Preferences...Console...External Modules was incorreclty hiding the command line options line edit
    • Because the detection was not working correctly, it was not possible to start an IPython kernel with the just released IPython 0.13
  • Project explorer was sometimes producing AttributeError when loading because of the workspace was not defined at the beginning of the class constructor
  • pyflakes code analysis function:

Other changes

  • Installer for Windows (bdist_wininst/bdist_msi):
    • added Start Menu shortcuts
    • added 'pyflakes' and 'rope' (if available in the repository) to the package list (this is not conventional but Spyder really need those tools and there is not decent package manager on Windows platforms, so...)
    • This change will make the Spyder building process simpler for Windows as the Python(x,y) won't be needed anymore to provide Start Menu shortcuts or to install 'rope' and 'pyflakes' at the same time. Now, there is no significative difference between the standard installers built with distutils (bdist_wininst or bdist_msi options) and the Python(x,y) plugin, except for the "package upgrade" ability (uninstall previous version) which is still not (and won't be) supported by distutils.

Version 2.1.10

Bug fixes

  • Critical bugs:
    • Spyder crashed at startup/TypeError: _isdir() takes exactly 1 argument (0 given). Affects only Windows platforms with Python 3.2.2+ or 2.7.3+)
    • Spyder was freezing when working with netCDF4 objects in the interactive console
    • Console: h5py was systematically imported to avoid crashes with the HDF5 plugin (Variable Explorer's I/O plugin). These ugly workarounds introduced with revision 3affc82ce081 were removed in this changeset to avoid side effects like DLL version conflict on Windows platforms. The main risk of this change is to break the HDF5 plugin on some configurations. But this is the best compromise.
  • General:
    • Fixed regression: when no Qt library is installed (PyQt/PySide), warning the user with a Tkinter dialog box (if possible)
    • Fixed Preferences Dialog flickering issue introduced with revision a4e1565e93c5
    • Run configuration dialog: fixed Tab focus order behavior
    • Fixed "Run > Configure..." and "PYTHONPATH management" entry locations on MacOSX
    • Updated bootstrap script and Qt library selection logic to accomodate launch of Spyder using PySide while PyQt is also installed (Issue 1013, see Issue 975 for additional background).
    • Fixed several encoding problems preventing Spyder from launching when the user's home directory contains non-ASCII characters (Issue 812, Issue 1027).
    • Debugging: Issue 684: Debug with winpdb will now use the command line options and working directory specified in the General Setting section of the Run Configuration dialog
  • Console:
    • Changed "Clear shell" shortcut to "Ctrl+L" to avoid conflict with the Windows Task Manager shortcut on Windows platforms
    • Preferences/Advanced options: added option to start an IPython kernel at startup
  • Editor:
    • When multiple files were open, close-clicking 1 file was closing 2 files on 64-bits OS
    • Conditional breakpoint could not be changed to regular breakpoint
    • Outline Explorer: removed obsolete decorated methods icon (a decorated method is now shown exactly as a regular method)
    • Top-left corner menu (file list): fixed common prefix removal feature
    • "Outline" item selection opened in incorrect split panel due to a lost signal when focus changed from an editor to another
    • when splitting window after changing a shortcut, old shortcut was still active
  • Internal console/fixed an old regression: re-added help(), raw_input() support
  • Profiler: tree was sometimes empty + fixed error when file path contained "&"
  • File/Project explorer: fixed [by shchelokovskyy] Git commit/browse support
  • Find in files: fixed crash due to a bug in the common prefix finder function

Other changes

  • Checked Spyder's rope patch compatibility with rope v0.9.4
  • IPython plugin (experimental):
    • added support for "Execute in current interpreter"
    • added support for "Execute selection or block (F9)"
    • imports from local directory did not work
    • when a new kernel is started in Console, tabifying the frontend to the Console (for the first created frontend) and the next frontends to the previously created frontend
    • clients (frontends) may now really be closed (see context menu). The associated kernel and related clients may be closed as well (a message box dialog ask the user about this)
    • added support for the "Object Inspector to/from IPython kernel" link
    • improved reliability of the "Editor to/from IPython kernel" link
    • fixed focus management issue (link with variable explorer and object inspector)

Version 2.1.9

Bug fixes

  • Run configuration/bugfix: command line options were not properly parsed
  • Preferences dialog was not showing up with PySide installed and without PyQt4
  • Editor:
    • Closing additional editor window produced traceback and primary editor breakdown
    • File/Open: embedded editor popped up even if there is one in a separate window
    • Selecting a part of a word raises an IndexError exception
    • Revert option was prompting for user input even on an unmodified buffer
    • Added missing .f77 file extensions for Fortran files filter
    • Occurrence highlighting was not working when cursor was at the left side of a word and if the next character was ':', ',' or '(' (or any other character not matching the "word regexp")
  • Console:
    • Console was unusable (endless tracebacks) when monitor was disabled
    • File drag'n drop was not working (should execute dropped file)
  • (Experimental) IPython plugin:
    • Fixed compatibility issues with PyQt4 and IPython 0.12
    • Fixed multiple instances issue (it was not possible to open more than one IPython frontend) and other issues
    • IPython kernel connections were unpredictable (Issue 977)
  • Dictionary editor (Variable explorer): fixed UnboundLocalError when context menu is called on an empty table
  • Object inspector failed to show an error message due to unicode error
  • Project Explorer:
    • "Show all files" option was broken after restarting Spyder
    • It was impossible to create a project from an existing directory located outside the workspace

Version 2.1.8

Bug fixes

  • Editor/Source code toolbar:
    • "Show task list" and "Go to the next task" actions: the "Show TODO/FIXME/XXX/HINT/TIP comments list" button was not working
    • "Show warning/error list" and "Go to the next warning/error" actions: the "Show code analysis warnings/errors" button was not working

Version 2.1.7

Bug fixes

  • Main window:
    • Detached dockwidgets were not painted after restarting Spyder (Issue 880)
  • Console:
    • Enhanced Python interpreter: %clear command was broken since v2.1.5
  • Object inspector's rich text mode: fixed unexpected indent error
  • IPython plugin: fixed compatibility issue with latest v0.12dev (thanks to Boris Gorelik)

Other changes

  • Variable explorer/Array editor: added support for masked arrays
  • Showing Spyder's internal console automatically when there is a traceback
  • Do not crash when a 3rd party plugin failed to import
  • Editor:
    • Automatic insertion of single, double and triple quotes
    • Automatically colons insertion when pressing Enter after 'if', 'def', etc
    • Don't trigger code completion on comments if text ends with a dot
    • Added keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+Escape) to clear the console
    • Added keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+P) to print current file (thanks to fheday at gmail dot com for the contribution)
    • Code introspection features (code completion, calltips, go-to-definition) are now working even if script has syntax errors

Version 2.1.6

Bug fixes

  • Critical bug on certain Windows platforms (not sure yet if it's related to a particular version of PyQt or something else): all plugins (dockwidgets) were shown detached (or hidden) from the mainwindow at startup (this is related to the attempt fixing Issue 880)

Version 2.1.5

Bug fixes

  • Detached dockwidgets (Console, ...) were not painted after restarting Spyder
  • Editor/Outline-bugfix: duplicate entries were shown when the editor was synchronizing file contents with disk
  • File/Project explorer:
    • Fixed regression regarding Issue 740 (fixed in v2.1.0, re-introduced in v2.1.2): couldn't open files with non-ascii characters in their names
    • SCM support: commit/log actions were not working when right-clicking on a file instead of a folder
  • Console:
    • Monitor/Introspection: fixed socket communication issue due to a MemoryError -- This error was mixing communication messages, causing various problems described in Issue 857 and Issue 858. This bug was reported by ruoyu0088, who also tried (and succeeded) to fix it and suggested a workaround which is implemented in this release
    • Fix critical console hang on OS X when using the "Run selection or current block feature" (see Issue 502)
    • Apply the right scheme color to the IPython console when there weren't any options provided by the user or when the only option was "-colors LightBG"
  • Windows platforms:
    • "Preferences" dialog was not shown if account username contained non-ASCII characters
  • Object Inspector:
    • Show signatures for docstrings sent from the Editor (see Issue 690)

Other changes

  • Debugging: when a non-empty SPYDER_DEBUG environment variable exists, Spyder switch to debug mode (log files are created in user's home directory and debug prints are available in the terminal)
  • Variable explorer/Dictionary editor: added option to plot histogram from a 1-D array
  • Console:
    • standard Python interpreter is now a real Python interactive session: the older implementation was running a startup script and tried to emulate a standard Python interactive session (changing attributes like name, running the PYTHONSTARTUP script, etc.). But this implementation was not close enough to the standard Python interactive session, i.e. when you execute python outside Spyder, without any argument. A recent bug report confirmed this: the PYTHONSTARTUP script was executed but not exactly the same way as it is outside Spyder: for example, doing from __future__ import division in the startup script had no effect whereas it did outside Spyder.
    • when running a standard Python interpreter, instead of running the startup script (spyderlib/widgets/externalshell/startup.py), the shell widget (ExternalPythonShell) simply runs the python executable with -u -i options, that's all. So now, the PYTHONSTARTUP script is executed as expected.
    • Scientific startup script (default PYTHONSTARTUP in Spyder): added floating point division (from future import division)
    • PySide support:
      • Added new "Qt (PyQt/PySide)" settings group in "External modules" tab
      • It is now possible to select the Qt-Python bindings library: default (i.e. depends on the QT_API environment variable), PyQt or PySide
      • The PyQt input hook has been adapted for PySide, so it is now possible to do interactive (non-blocking) plotting with PySide
    • New options for standard Python interpreters (no effect on IPython):
      • "Merge process standard output/error channels": merging the output channels of the process means that the standard error won't be written in red anymore, but this has the effect of speeding up display
      • "Colorize standard error channel using ANSI escape codes": this method is the only way to have colorized standard error channel when the output channels have been merged
  • Internal console (Issue 868): output is now immediately available
  • "Maximize current plugin" action: now automatically shows the "Outline" plugin when maximizing the "Editor" plugin
  • Editor/Outline comment separators: allow space betwee hash and dash, e.g "# --- Outline Separator"

Version 2.1.4

Bug fixes

  • Console:
    • Critical bugfix for IPython support: variable explorer link was broken (regression introduced with v2.1.3)

Other changes

  • Console:
    • option "Open an IPython interperter at startup" is now explicitely disabled for IPython v0.11+ (these versions of IPython are not fully supported through Spyder's console plugin)

Version 2.1.3

Enhancements

  • Variable explorer performance were improved, especially when dealing with very long sequences -- See this discussion
  • Variable explorer / dictionary editor: added support for unknown objects -- this allows browsing any object attributes -- This is still experimental.

Bug fixes

  • General:
    • Spyder preferences/bugfix: comboboxes with keys other than strings (e.g. the PyQt API selection combo box) were not initialized properly
    • Fixed memory leaks (QThread objects) in the "Editor" and "Find in files" plugins. In those two plugins, QThread objects were created, then started but were never garbage-collected after they finished their execution
  • Editor:
    • Supported file types: added missing C++ file extensions (.cc, .hh, .hxx)
  • Variable explorer:
    • Debugging: added support for editing objects within functions
    • Debugging: when debugging, variable explorer link was broken after restarting program
    • handling errors when trying to enable/disable autorefresh (if one of the running console has no monitor enabled)
  • Project explorer:
    • when the workspace has not yet been defined, creating a new project not only warns the user but also proposes to set it right away

Version 2.1.2

Bug fixes

  • General:
    • Patched external path library to avoid a crash with a user HOME directory with non-ascii characters
    • Doc/README: warning the user about the fact that the 'python setup.py install' method does not uninstall a previous version
  • Console:
    • Fixed "AccessInit: hash collision: 3 for both 1 and 1" error (see Issue 595)
  • Project explorer:
    • empty workspace/critical bugfix: impossible to create/import projects from context menu (this bug was introduced with a recent revision and stayed unnoticed until then because one has to test this from an empty workspace)
    • it is now possible to rename projects (safely)
    • now handling the I/O errors (e.g. read-only configuration files) occuring when loading/saving projects or the workspace: warning the user when an IOError exception was raised and mention the projects which could not be saved properly
  • File/Project explorer:
    • keyboard shortcut 'F2' (rename file/directory) was broken
    • the "Open" action (context menu) was failing silently for directories (expected behavior: open an external file explorer to browse the directory)
    • programs.start_file/bugfix: feature was not working on Windows 7
  • Editor:
    • Fix empty username in new file template on OS X (patch by Christoph Gohle)
  • Object inspector:
    • Rich text mode was not showing headings when invoked from editor (Issue 690)

Enhancements

  • File/Project explorer:
    • Added "Delete" keyboard shortcut to remove selected file(s)/folder(s)
    • SCM integration: added support for TortoiseHg v2 (only v1 was supported)
  • Console/Matplotlib options: the backend may now be set separately from the Matplotlib patch

Other changes

  • Console:
    • The Matplotlib patch is only applied for Matplotlib <=v1.0
    • PyQt API version issues (error like "ValueError: API 'QString' has already been set to version 1"): the "ignore setapi errors" option is disabled by default, to avoid masking these errors and associated tracebacks

Version 2.1.1

Note: v2.1.1 is a minor update of v2.1.0 (licence issues and minor bug fixes)

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Compatibility/Requirements

Since version 2.1:

  • Spyder is now compatible with:
    • PyQt's API v1 (i.e. compatible with PyQt 4.4 and 4.5), the default Python 2 API
    • and PyQt's API v2 (this is the future: default Python 3 API and PySide-compatible API)
    • and with PySide (PySide support is still experimental as this library is still young but its stability is evolving rapidly)
  • Editor/code analysis: Spyder now requires pyflakes v0.5.0 (included in Windows installers).

New features since v2.0.12

  • New Profiler plugin (thanks to Santiago Jaramillo)
  • New experimental IPython plugin embedding IPython's Qt console: see here
  • General:
    • Main window:
      • added "Custom window layouts" management (see menu "View")/handling 3 custom layouts: default shortcuts Shift+Alt+FX to switch to/from layout #X and Ctrl+Shift+Alt+FX to set layout #X
      • "General" preferences page: added option to set the Qt windows style, depending on platform (Plastique, Cleanlooks, CDE, Windows...)
      • Menu "?": added menu entry to report Spyder issues, filling automatically informations on your configuration
      • Reorganized "Run"/"Source" menu, added "Interpreters" menu
      • Fixed application name for Gnome 3/Fedora 15
  • Command line options: added option "--defaults" to reset settings (stored in .spyder.ini) to defaults (a lot of settings are preserved: shortcuts, window layouts, ...) -- this is less brutal than "--reset" which reset all settings by removing all configuration files related to Spyder
  • Outline (function/class browser) is now a plugin in itself, embedded in its own dockwidget: Spyder's window layout is even more customizable than before
  • Code completion
    • (Editor/Console): entries starting with an underscore character are now placed to the end of the suggested list
    • (Editor/Console): Import statements are now completed correctly
  • Console:
    • Major code cleaning: running Python applications in Spyder has never been cleaner and is very close to a simple Python interpreter
    • Added built-in function open_in_spyder to open a file in Spyder's source code editor from the console
    • Standard Python interpreter:
      • now refresh the variable explorer at each new prompt (even if auto-refresh is disabled -- actually, this is the typical use case)
      • added support for basic special commands (%pwd, %ls, %clear) and system commands (starting with '!', e.g. !dir or !ls)
      • added "scientific" startup script with support for numpy, scipy and matplotlib
    • Preferences (External modules tab):
      • added an option to set PyQt API to v1 or v2 -- this avoids issues with Enthought Tool Suite or any other library/program using PyQt API v2 which is not the default API for Python 2
      • changed matplotlib patch to fix compatiblity issue with PyQt API v2
    • Preferences (Advanced Settings tab): added option "Python executable" to customize path to Python interpreter executable binary
  • Variable explorer:
    • New HDF5 plugin by DavidAnthonyPowell: import/export HDF5 files to/from the variable explorer
    • Dictionary editor/Variable explorer:
      • Added support for more NumPy data types
      • Added action "Resize rows to contents" (partially implements feature requested with Issue 807)
  • Editor:
    • find/replace:
      • added support for multiline regular expression search pattern
      • added support for multiline regular expression text replacement
      • added button "Highlight matches" to highlight all found results
    • syntax highlighting: added support for OpenCL, gettext files, patch/diff files, CSS and HTML files
    • support for "2 spaces" and "tabs" indentation characters
    • new code analysis feature: added support for the pep8 style guide checker
    • "Comment" and "Uncomment" actions were replaced by a single "Comment/Uncommment" toggle action
    • (Fixes Issue 811 ) "Run configuration": added "Run in an external system terminal" option
  • File explorer and Project explorer:
    • great performance improvement (using a multithreaded file system model)
    • Added minimalist SCM support (Mercurial and git are currently supported)
  • File explorer: added an option to "Show current directory only"
  • Project explorer: this plugin was entirely rewritten to improve performances and usability
  • Pylint plugin:
    • added option to save file before analyzing it
  • Spyder's console embedded in your application (spyderlib.widgets.internalshell):
    • in traceback, a clickable link now opens the associated file in Spyder (if application was launched from Spyder with monitor enabled)
    • Application sample embedding Spyder's internal shell: upgraded to guidata v1.4+ (simplified build script a lot)
  • Windows platforms specific changes:
    • (requires pywin32) Hiding the attached console window:
      • allow running Spyder with 'python.exe' without visible console (this avoid using 'pythonw.exe' which does not attach a console to the process, hence preventing standard I/O to be redirected in a subprocess executed within Spyder, e.g. in your own program)
      • the attached console may be shown/hidden from menu entry "View > Attached console window (debugging)"
  • Major change for Windows/PyQt users: standard Python interpreter now supports interactive GUI manipulations thanks to a new Spyder-specific input hook (replacing PyQt's input hook which is not working within Spyder on Windows platforms) -- the input hook works even better than PyQt's builtin input hook (with a Python interpreter opened outside Spyder)
  • Spyder's stand-alone version building process was improved. This version is now available on project's download page.

Bug fixes (since v2.0.12)

  • Spyder's main window:
    • QtDesigner and QtLinguist were not detected on Fedora
    • Console/Editor: code completion widget was partially hidden when working on two monitors and if Spyder's window was on the right screen
    • Fixed bugs due to too early/frequent calls to plugin refresh methods during startup
  • Console:
    • IPython Interpreter: Turn off autoindent magic to avoid indentation errors with code with inline comments
  • Editor:
    • Fortran syntax highlighter was made case insensitive
    • Fixed IndentationError when running first line of a file
    • Read only files allowed ".", "[", "(", etc. to be entered into the text editor
    • Fixed segmentation faults occuring after using the vertical-horizontal splitting feature
    • If a file name had non-ascii characters then code completion (and all other rope-based features) in the editor stopped working
    • Code analysis: fixed tasks pattern (for example, previous one was matching "TIP" in "MULTIPLICATION"... now it will match only single "TIP:" or "TIP ")
    • (Fixes Issue 704) Outline was showing the delimiters of block comments ('#------...-'), causing nesting inconsistencies because block comments are not indented properly with respect to the code around
    • Fixed several bugs with the "Run selection or current block" feature.
  • Object inspector:
    • Rich text mode was failing for non-ascii docstrings
  • Find/Replace widget:
    • Combo box history was populated only when pressing Enter (now pressing F3 to find next occurrence will add the current entry to history)

Version 2.0.12

Bug fixes

  • (Fixes Issue 476) Editor/bugfix: print preview was not working
  • Completion widget/bugfix (editor/console): combo box was truncated by main window depending on its size
  • widgets.sourcecode.base.TextEditBaseWidget/bugfix: parenting to None was not working
  • Console/Text wrap mode: character wrapping was not implemented since we switched from QTextEdit to QPlainTextEdit
  • (Fixes Issue 649) Patch submitted by DavidAnthonyPowell - Syntax highlighter does not recognise imaginary, binary or octal numbers
  • Spyder's layout: fixed window position/size issues when maximized/fullscreen mode was active
  • Object inspector: fixed minor bug (simple traceback in the internal console) when handling a sphinx error
  • (Fixes Issue 667) Editor/bugfix: Shift+Enter inserted lines that did not get line numbers
  • (Fixes Issue 672) Editor: TODO/FIXME were not detected if not followed by ':' (HINT/TIP were properly detected)

Enhancements

  • (Fixes Issue 655) Editor/pyflakes-powered code analysis: warnings are now ignored for lines containing "pyflakes:ignore"

Other changes

  • Internal console (Spyder debugging only): turned off the multithreaded mode

Version 2.0.11

Bug fixes (since v2.0.9)

  • (Fixes Issue 616) Pylint plugin: tree widget header text was not updated when analyizing a new script (the last analyzed script name was still shown)
  • Editor/completion widget/bugfix: pressing shift was hiding the completion combo box
  • (Fixes Issue 630) Added missing default settings for "Spyder light" (only necessary when installing from scratch and without any remaining .spyder.ini file)
  • Editor/Console-bugfix: info tooltips (calltips) were hidden right after being shown (i.e. when typing any character after the left parenthesis)
  • (Fixes Issue 631) Drag and drop of files into editor on Linux was pasting path instead of opening the file
  • (Fixes Issue 640) Editor: block comment was not working correctly at end of file
  • Code completion widget (Editor/Console) - bugfix: parenting to the ancestor widget was necessary on Linux
  • (Fixes Issue 546) (Contributor: Alex Fargus) C/Cpp syntax highlighting bugfix
  • (Fixes Issue 646) IPython integration: fixed pyreadline monkey-patch for pyreadline v1.7

Enhancements (since v2.0.9)

  • File explorer widget/plugin: improved performances (widget is now populated in a separate thread)
  • Spyder crash dialog: warning the user about the '--reset' option (this will remove all configuration files)

Version 2.0.9

Bug fixes

  • Console: added option to ignore PyQt/sip errors when trying to set sip API (fixed Enthought Tool Suite 3.6.0 compatibility issue)
  • utils.dochelpers.getargtxt/bugfix: retrieving builtin function arguments was no longer working
  • (Fixes Issue 499) Editor-related keyboard shortcuts were not applied after opening files
  • (Fixes Issue 575) Tab scroll buttons were not shown on OS X resulting in clamped/changing window sizes
  • (Fixes Issue 574) Debugging: Spyder only synced at debugger breakpoints
  • (Fixes Issue 576) "Source / Remove trailing spaces" was removing newline at the end of file (+ added support for "undo")
  • (Fixes Issue 582) Console: changing font preferences was requiring a restart to be fully taken into account
  • (Fixes Issue 562) Spyder was unable to restore editor's outline explorer tree when mixed ' and " characters were found in tree entries
  • (Fixes Issue 590) Shell/"Clear line" shortcut was not correct: this is actually "Shift+Escape" (not "Escape")
  • (Fixes Issue 591) History log was systematically erased when updating Spyder version
  • Outline explorer/bugfix: when opening file, the 'show/hide all files' option was not applied (this was then applied when switching from a file to another)
  • (Fixes Issue 602) Backported from v2.1 a couple of bugfixes related to Editor and multiple panels
  • Object inspector: when raised automatically above other dockwidgets, plugin refresh was unnecessarily triggered
  • Editor/code completion-bugfix: some key events (e.g. Ctrl+V) were lost during code completion-related hang-up
  • (Fixes Issue 599) Multiline text pasting was not working in a newly opened console (i.e. first prompt)

Enhancements

  • Major change/Translations: moved from 'QtLinguist' to 'gettext' (localizing Spyder should now be easier)
  • Console: increased default maximum line count (buffer depth) up to 10,000 lines (instead of only 300 lines)
  • Editor's rope-based introspection features (code completion, calltips, go to definition): new rope monkey-patch providing major performance improvements
  • File explorer/Project explorer - opening file with associated application: now supported on all platforms
  • Added action "Reset window layout" in "View" menu to reset main window layout to default
  • Documentation: added page on debugging
  • Editor: added syntax highlighters for diff/patch files (.diff, .patch, .rej) and gettext files (.po, .pot)
  • (Fixes Issue 537) Global working directory toolbar: removed label considering the fact that the toolbar widgets are quite explicit on its role (and the combo box tooltip is explaining it in detail)
  • (Fixes Issue 598) Added a .desktop file in source package
  • (Fixes Issue 87) Editor plugin's title now show the current script filename

Version 2.0.8

Bug fixes (since v2.0.6)

  • Consoles/bugfix: saving history log (see context menu) was not working following a recent code cleaning/refactoring
  • On non-Windows platforms, the file selection dialog "All files (.)" filter was not matching files without extension
  • dochelpers.isdefined/bugfix: ignoring syntax errors while evaluating object
  • Preferences Dialog (dialog box + keyboard shortcut page): improved size/resize behavior
  • Editor: when cursor was on the very last line, Duplicate/Delete line features were getting stuck in an infinite loop
  • Editor/duplicate line feature - fixed unexpected behavior: when duplicating selected text, text selection was extended to duplicated part
  • Editor/bugfix with multiple editor windows: when opening file on one editor window, the top-left corner menu (file list) was not updated correctly in other editor windows
  • Editor/fixed unexpected behavior: when clicking on the main window's outline explorer while a separate editor window had focus, the latter was used to show the associated line of code
  • Project explorer: added new debugging options (profiling 'rope' calls)
  • Console/Advanced settings/UMD module list: removing all entries (empty module list) was not working
  • Editor/File list management dialog (Ctrl+E): double clicking/pressing Return on a listwidget item will switch to the associated file
  • Editor/Tab bar: fixed missing tooltips issue (and missing file switch menu entries)
  • Code completion/bugfix: list widget was not hiding as expected when pressing ':'
  • Editor/fixed unexpected behavior: when some text was selected, "Ctrl+Left mouse click" was trying to "go to definition" instead of doing the standard drag n'drop feature
  • Editor/bugfix: disabling code completion/calltips for non-Python source code (was not working -as expected- but was taking time to simply not work...)
  • Editor/go to line: fixed unicode error
  • Code editor/bugfix: cursor position was not restored when undoing an indent operation with "tab always indent" feature turned on and the cursor at the end of the line
  • Tab behavior when "tab always indents" is turned off: inserting 4-(len(leading_text) % 4) spaces (instead of 4)
  • Object inspector/bugfix: ignoring unknown objects when called automatically from editor/console, i.e. do not log, do not show 'no doc available'

Other changes (since v2.0.6)

  • Code editor syntax highlighting: added more keywords to Cython syntax highlighter (cpdef, inline, cimport and DEF)
  • Added example of application using the Spyder's internal shell as a debugging console (demonstrates also the py2exe deployment procedure)
  • Object inspector: added "Source" combo box (Console/Editor) -> object inspected from editor are now analyzed only with rope (if available) and then shown in object inspector
  • Added keyboard shortcut to open Preferences Dialog (default: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+P)
  • Editor: added "Copy line" feature (Ctrl+Alt+Down), similar to "Duplicate line" (Ctrl+Alt+Up) but paste text before the current line/selected text (instead of after)
  • Array editor: added option to set row/col labels (resp. ylabels and xlabels)
  • Editor/rope: improved performance for calltips/doc feature

Version 2.0.6

Bug fixes

  • Console: menu entries "Environment variables", "Current working directory" and "Show sys.path" were not disabled when the Monitor was turned off
  • Preferences dialog box/Keyboard shortcuts:
    • conflicts are now ignored if shortcuts have different contexts except if one of this context is '_' (i.e. global context)
    • conflict warnings are now also shown when showing the preferences dialog box (not only when modifying shortcuts and applying changes)
  • Drag/drop Python script to console: fixed TypeError (TypeError: start() got an unexpected keyword argument 'ask_for_arguments')
  • Console base widget: added support for FF (Form Feed) ANSI sequence - Fixes bug in IPython console: 'cls' and 'clear' magic commands were inactive in IPython consoles
  • Editor: code completion was sometimes very slow when editing files within a Spyder project
  • Code editor: fixed "Delete line" feature (Ctrl+D) / was not working with multiline selection

Other changes

  • Editor/80-column vertical edge line: added options to show/hide this line and change the column number
  • Editor: added "Comment"/"Uncomment" actions to context menu
  • Source code and shell editor widgets: code refactoring/cleaning (this should help people using these widgets outside Spyder)