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Scientists, engineers and data analysts teams searching for an IDE platform
About Spyder
Spyder’s multi-language editor integrates a number of powerful tools right out of the box for an easy to use, efficient editing experience. The editor’s key features include syntax highlighting (pygments); real-time code and style analysis (pyflakes and pycodestyle); on-demand completion, calltips and go-to-definition features (rope and jedi); a function/class browser, horizontal and vertical splitting, and much more. The IPython console allows you to execute commands and interact with data inside IPython interpreters. The variable explorer allows you to interactively browse and manage the objects generated running your code. It shows the namespace contents (including all global objects, variables, class instances and more) of the currently selected IPython console session, and allows you to add, remove, and edit their values through a variety of GUI-based editors.
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