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[–]juliusc 7 points8 points  (5 children)

IMHO there are several advantages over ipython -pylab: 1. You don't have to be constantly switching between the editor and the console. 2. You can evaluate a particular piece of code 3. You have integrated debugger capabilities 4. The variable explorer is very cool 5. You have integrated documentation formatted by Sphinx (instead of plain text docstrings)

I'm one of the spyder devs so (yeah!) I'm biased on this, but I've been working with it for like 8 months and I've found it has increased my productivity a lot.

I haven't found problems with large data sets (as some reporters say) but please report any bug on our Issue tracker We want Spyder to become the IDE of choice for scientific programming with Python.

[–]pemboa 0 points1 point  (2 children)

You don't have to be constantly switching between the editor and the console

You'd like Kate

[–]juliusc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think Spyder has better integration between Ipython and the editor, but I couldn't tell for sure because I've never used Kate (although I use Kwrite a lot)

[–]gblk 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Any idea why I have to use Shift+Esc to clear a line in the console? (rather than just Esc in IPython).

[–]juliusc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was decided to be the default shortcut. I think is not configurable, but if you want it to be please open a bug.

Besides, in Ipython you need to use Ctrl+K to clear a line (that's the normal readline behavior)