This new release coincides with an opportunity for me to get back to learning and coding python to glue some research equipment and data acquisition together instead of doing my usual firmware C coding for 8 bit platforms.
Spyder 3 is working excellently so far, the combination of features that Spyder provides are perfect for the way I find myself wanting to use and learn python. Predominantly: the ability to code and run files and then play with the global variables in the iPython console is exceptionally intuative. Combined with the automatic documentation viewer in the Help window, I find myself able to dig into new libraries and codebases quickly, and it always gives me a bit of a thrill when my own comments and documentation pop up in the viewer which in turn encourages me to be a better documenter of my own classes and functions. It really seems to deliver and reinforce the enjoyment and the intellectual promises of Python better than any other IDE I've worked with. I've been getting a lot of mileage out of the new keyboard shortcut interface, it's perfectly convenient and has almost got me feeling that it's a bit like Cadsoft EAGLE for me in that I could easily remap all of the shortcuts to my own mental mnemonics and completely internalize them. Lastly, I'm running El Capitan but with a set of user files that has been continuously upgraded since probably Mac OS 10.1 and I had the slow UI problem with Spyder 2 for the past year and for some reason couldn't get Spyder 3.0.2b to run. 3.0.3b runs excellently, works with all my libraries, and, except for a few crashes and freezes so far, seems really stable and reliable. The crashes and freezes haven't incurred any data loss as they seem related to what one of the users described as happened after the program is left alone for a while, and I've generally already saved my files whenever it happens. Anyway, very excellent work and much much appreciated! I'll keep following along the mailing list and will add what I can to the bug reports and tickets. Thanks to you all for putting together the best and most intuitive IDE that I've ever had the chance to work with. Dan McAnulty > On Jun 6, 2016, at 6:01 PM, Carlos Córdoba <ccordob...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > On the behalf of Spyder’s development team ( > <https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/graphs/contributors>https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/graphs/contributors > <https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/graphs/contributors>), > I’m pleased to announce the third beta of our next major version: Spyder 3.0. > > We’ve been working on this version for almost two years now and as far as we > know > it’s working very well. There are still several bugs to squash but we > encourage all > people who like the bleeding edge to give it a try. This beta is released > six months after our second one and it includes almost 600 commits! > > Spyder 3.0 comes with several interesting and exciting new features. The most > important ones are: > > Support for much more programming languages: Spyder relies now on the > excellent Pygments > library to provide syntax highlight and suggest code completions in the > Editor, for all > programming languages supported by it. > A new file switcher: Spyder 3.0 will come with a fancy file switcher, very > similar in > spirit to the one present in Sublime Text. This is a dialog to select among > the open > files in the Editor, by doing a fuzzy search through their names. It also > lets users to > view the list of classes, methods and functions defined in the current file, > and select > one of them. This dialog is activated with Ctrl+P. > A Numpy array graphical builder: Users who need to create NumPy arrays in > Spyder for > matrices and vectors can do it now in a graphical way by pressing Ctrl+M in > the Editor > or the Consoles. This will open an empty 2D table widget to be filled with > the data > required by the user. > A new icon theme based on FontAwesome. > A new set of default pane layouts for those coming from Rstudio or Matlab > (under > View > Window layouts). > A simpler and more intuitive way to introduce keyboard shortcuts. > Support for PyQt5, which fixes problems in MacOS X and in high definition > screens. > For a complete list of changes, please see here: > > > <https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/wiki/Beta-version-changelog>https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/wiki/Beta-version-changelog > <https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/wiki/Beta-version-changelog> > You can easily install this beta if you use Anaconda by running: > > conda update qt pyqt > conda install -c spyder-ide spyder==3.0.0b3 > Or you can use pip with this command: > > pip install --pre -U spyder > Enjoy! > -Carlos > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "spyder" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to spyderlib+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:spyderlib+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To post to this group, send email to spyderlib@googlegroups.com > <mailto:spyderlib@googlegroups.com>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/spyderlib > <https://groups.google.com/group/spyderlib>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "spyder" group. 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