# Spyder - Documentation

Spyder is the Scientific PYthon Development EnviRonment:

- a powerful interactive development environment for the Python language with advanced editing, interactive testing, debugging and introspection features
- and a numerical computing environment thanks to the support of IPython (enhanced interactive Python interpreter) and popular Python libraries such as NumPy (linear algebra), SciPy (signal and image processing) or matplotlib (interactive 2D/3D plotting).

Spyder may also be used as a library providing powerful console-related widgets for your PyQt-based applications – for example, it may be used to integrate a debugging console directly in the layout of your graphical user interface.

Spyder websites:

- Downloads, bug reports and feature requests: https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder
- Discussions: http://groups.google.com/group/spyderlib

Contents:

- Overview
- Installation
  - Installing on Windows Vista/7/8/10
  - Installing on MacOS X
  - Installing on Linux
  - Installing or running directly from source
  - Installing the development version
  - Help and support
- Command line options
- Editor
  - How to define a code cell
- IPython Console
  - Reloading modules: the User Module Reloader (UMR)
- Debugging
  - Debugging with pdb
- Console
- Variable Explorer
  - Supported types
- Help
- Projects
  - Version Control Integration
- Static code analysis
- File Explorer
- History log
- Find in files
- Online help
- Internal Console

Indices and tables:

- Index
- Search Page