The “Object Inspector” is now called “Help” (from Spyder version 3.0 onwards); see https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/spyderlib/pF7KmSKDFXc . However, the Ctrl-I shortcut has not been changed, so I’m not sure what’s happening with that.
To make spyder callable from Spotlight or Finder: Locate where your spyder executable is by running in Terminal: which spyder This should yield ~/anaconda/bin/spyder if you installed spyder via Anaconda, /opt/local/bin/spyder if you used MacPorts or something similar. Create a file called spyder in your Applications directory and make it executable. Then, fill it with … Read more
The solution was that there was no empty __init__.py file in the sub-folder tools, only in the super-folder python_library. Adding a file __init__.py into tools made it work.
Seems that I didn’t inspect Preferences attentively enough initially. Right answer is: Preferences → Text and margin font style → Size EDIT: updating answer according to comments. In the latest versions of Spyder IDE path to changing font size is: Tools → Preferences → General → Appearance → Fonts EDIT2 (since march 2021): Tools → … Read more
To pass argv to a script in Spyder, you need to go the menu entry Run > Configuration per file or press the Ctrl+F6 key, then look for the option called Command line options on the dialog that appears after that, and finally enter the command line arguments you want to pass to the script, … Read more
In my case I had to update the package ipykernel as well (on Python 3.6.3 | Anaconda 64-bit | Windows 10). Now my Spyder can spawn conoles in reasonable time. Using conda I succeeded by: conda update pyzmq conda update ipykernel
IPython console to Editor: Command +Shift + E Editor to IPython console: Command + Shift + I (On windows you can replace Command with CTRL)
Default integer type np.int_ is C long: http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy-1.10.1/user/basics.types.html But C long is int32 in win64. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/9c3yd98k.aspx This is kind of a weirdness of the win64 platform.
The path for the %run magic needs to be the path that the server sees, not the client. You are passing the path from the client’s perspective. When you type run Z:/blah/blah/blah.py, your terminal sends that path to the IPython server to execute. The server looks for the path Z:/blah/blah/blah.py, but since it doesn’t exist … Read more
The key to run the current line by itself is F9. The shortcut ctrl+F10 is used if you are in debugging mode. You can see a list of shortcuts by selecting Preferences in the Tool menu, and then clicking on Keyboard shortcuts.