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| Original author(s) | Pierre Raybaut |
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| Developer(s) | Spyder project contributors |
| Initial release | 18 October 2009[1][2] |
| Stable release | 5.5.4[3] 
/ 9 April 2024 |
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| Written in | Python |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Platform | Qt, Windows, macOS, Linux |
| Type | Integrated development environment |
| License | MIT |
| Website | www |
Spyder is an open-source cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) for scientific programming in the Python language. Spyder integrates with a number of prominent packages in the scientific Python stack, including NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib, pandas, IPython, SymPy and Cython, as well as other open-source software.[4][5] It is released under the MIT license.[6]
Initially created and developed by Pierre Raybaut in 2009, since 2012 Spyder has been maintained and continuously improved by a team of scientific Python developers and the community.
Spyder is extensible with first-party and third-party plugins,[7] includes support for interactive tools for data inspection and embeds Python-specific code quality assurance and introspection instruments, such as Pyflakes, Pylint[8] and Rope. It is available cross-platform through Anaconda, on Windows, on macOS through MacPorts, and on major Linux distributions such as Arch Linux, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo Linux, openSUSE and Ubuntu.[9][10]
Spyder uses Qt for its GUI and is designed to use either of the PyQt or PySide Python bindings.[11] QtPy, a thin abstraction layer developed by the Spyder project and later adopted by multiple other packages, provides the flexibility to use either backend.[12]
