Spyder is a useful program for Windows created to serve as an integrated development environment for creating projects in Python. It was developed to provide you with MATLAB-like features in a small but powerful and easy to use software distribution. The utility is particularly helpful when it comes to development environments focused on research, data analysis and science in general.

Overview

The app package contains an interactive IPython console with extensive debugging capabilities. The graphical user interface features a large workspace so that you are able to concentrate on evaluating the code you write in the editor. In addition, the console supports Matplotlib figure integration and enables you to explore the variables that are generated during the execution of a file.

Additional capabilities

It is necessary to mention that you have the ability to modify the variables with the other GUI based editors or learn more about how they interact with the filesystem from within the program. Speaking of modifications, the tool comes with a powerful multi-language editor that comes with a class and function browser.

As you would expect from any development environment, the utility offers horizontal and vertical splitting, goto definitions, code analysis functions, as well as code completion. It is also possible to perform queries across multiple files, as it supports regular expressions.

Features

free to download and use;
compatible with modern Windows versions;
enables you to create projects using Python programming language;
it is possible to modify variables and learn about how they interact;
supports code analysis functions, horizontal and vertical splitting.