That will be reverted in the next version, i.e. it'll be optional.
We were aware of that and very careful to not allow something like it for Spyder users.
You're probably using an old version of Spyder because this problem was fixed a long time ago: https://github.com/jupyter/qtconsole/pull/397
At the time we did that poll we had ~1000 followers on Twitter, so that's 15% of our audience, which is pretty good for an online poll. But more important than that, we receive ~200 issues per month on Github (which…
> My concern with this would be that you've arguably turned a nice free (as in freedom!), open-source-tool into a vehicle to push more or less proprietary and user-tracking code onto naive, unknowing users I…
We're working to improve that
Because it'd make everything look huge in non-high DPI displays. It's a trade off, but most people still use them.
Sure, it works with any Python installation/environment that has spyder-kernels installed.
Unfortunately we haven't had time to address that, but it's high in our TODO list. We hope to do it this year.
Thanks for the feedback. That's planned for this year, i.e. to have auto-updating and signed installers (at least on Mac). So stay tuned.
Great! It's too late for us to include it in our next version (4.2.2), but we'll definitely consider it for Spyder 5.0, to be released in April.
They funded us to implement this feature: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26042582 But we also consider it a nice suggestion to our users, for a feature they've asked for years to make more reliable and robust.
Yeah, updates in Anaconda can be bumpy. That's why we decided to create our own installers for Windows and Mac: https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/releases/tag/v4.2.1
Well, this is the thing: code completion in Python is not a a simple task and we've struggled for years to improve it. Now we support the Language Server Protocol (designed by Microsoft for VSCode), but still things are…
> Also, just wanna say Spyder looks like it's come a long way in the last decade. Congrats on some fine work! Oh yeah, this is so true! Ten years ago, when I joined the project, it was just Pierre (Spyder's original…
Thanks a lot for your kind words! And I'm glad to know Spyder works smoothly for you with pip (it's not usually the case). Too bad you had a bad experience with Kite, but (as I said several times here), it's completely…
Yes, you can disable hovers and hints completely. For that you need to go to the menu Tools > Preferences and then Completion and linting > Introspection and disable there "Show calltips" and "Enable hover hints".
As I said, it's a two times thing, but if it bothers you so much, we could a command line option to disable those messages completely. Would that be ok?
Thanks a lot your kind words! I'm really glad you enjoyed using Spyder and have fond memories of it.
Agreed, installing Spyder with pip can lead to a lot of headaches. That's why we don't recommend to use it and suggest Anaconda/conda instead. But that solution also became problematic during the last couple of years…
Fixed now, sorry for the inconvenience.
Right, we haven't had resources to invest on it, so it's been developed by the community. It'd be nice if we could use Neovim for text manipulations and show what comes back from it in our editor. If only days had 36…
> The link to the 'editor' page 404s We just fixed this. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Yes, it's written in PyQt and we integrate with a lot of libraries in the Scientific Python ecosystem (Pandas, Sympy, IPython, Matplotlib, Scipy, Cython, etc).
I respectfully disagree. The variable explorer allows to check what variables you have declared and how they change with changes in your code. This is critical for scientific computing because you're constantly…
That will be reverted in the next version, i.e. it'll be optional.
We were aware of that and very careful to not allow something like it for Spyder users.
You're probably using an old version of Spyder because this problem was fixed a long time ago: https://github.com/jupyter/qtconsole/pull/397
At the time we did that poll we had ~1000 followers on Twitter, so that's 15% of our audience, which is pretty good for an online poll. But more important than that, we receive ~200 issues per month on Github (which…
> My concern with this would be that you've arguably turned a nice free (as in freedom!), open-source-tool into a vehicle to push more or less proprietary and user-tracking code onto naive, unknowing users I…
We're working to improve that
Because it'd make everything look huge in non-high DPI displays. It's a trade off, but most people still use them.
Sure, it works with any Python installation/environment that has spyder-kernels installed.
Unfortunately we haven't had time to address that, but it's high in our TODO list. We hope to do it this year.
Thanks for the feedback. That's planned for this year, i.e. to have auto-updating and signed installers (at least on Mac). So stay tuned.
Great! It's too late for us to include it in our next version (4.2.2), but we'll definitely consider it for Spyder 5.0, to be released in April.
They funded us to implement this feature: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26042582 But we also consider it a nice suggestion to our users, for a feature they've asked for years to make more reliable and robust.
Yeah, updates in Anaconda can be bumpy. That's why we decided to create our own installers for Windows and Mac: https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/releases/tag/v4.2.1
Well, this is the thing: code completion in Python is not a a simple task and we've struggled for years to improve it. Now we support the Language Server Protocol (designed by Microsoft for VSCode), but still things are…
> Also, just wanna say Spyder looks like it's come a long way in the last decade. Congrats on some fine work! Oh yeah, this is so true! Ten years ago, when I joined the project, it was just Pierre (Spyder's original…
Thanks a lot for your kind words! And I'm glad to know Spyder works smoothly for you with pip (it's not usually the case). Too bad you had a bad experience with Kite, but (as I said several times here), it's completely…
Yes, you can disable hovers and hints completely. For that you need to go to the menu Tools > Preferences and then Completion and linting > Introspection and disable there "Show calltips" and "Enable hover hints".
As I said, it's a two times thing, but if it bothers you so much, we could a command line option to disable those messages completely. Would that be ok?
Thanks a lot your kind words! I'm really glad you enjoyed using Spyder and have fond memories of it.
Agreed, installing Spyder with pip can lead to a lot of headaches. That's why we don't recommend to use it and suggest Anaconda/conda instead. But that solution also became problematic during the last couple of years…
Fixed now, sorry for the inconvenience.
Right, we haven't had resources to invest on it, so it's been developed by the community. It'd be nice if we could use Neovim for text manipulations and show what comes back from it in our editor. If only days had 36…
> The link to the 'editor' page 404s We just fixed this. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Yes, it's written in PyQt and we integrate with a lot of libraries in the Scientific Python ecosystem (Pandas, Sympy, IPython, Matplotlib, Scipy, Cython, etc).
I respectfully disagree. The variable explorer allows to check what variables you have declared and how they change with changes in your code. This is critical for scientific computing because you're constantly…