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I use the Anaconda-packaged version of Spyder on a daily basis. Great product, although I can never seem to get the IDE updates to consistently work within that environment.

Nevertheless it is my favorite IDE for Python.

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I'm not much of an Anaconda fan, but installing Spyder as a user package (pip install -U spyder) has always worked out well for me. After an upgrade, all I've ever needed to do was to upgrade to the spyder-kernels in my venv.

Spyder is such a great tool and much more useful than Jupyter Notebooks for explorative DS work, imho. Thank a lot for maintaining it, Carlos. I don't mind the kite installer - but I've tried it out and found the completions pretty useless.

Thanks a lot for your kind words! And I'm glad to know Spyder works smoothly for you with pip (it's not usually the case).

Too bad you had a bad experience with Kite, but (as I said several times here), it's completely optional.

You could consider using our new installers, if you're on Windows or macOS, to avoid that: https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/releases/tag/v4.2.1

Then you can connect them to your conda envs, as described here: http://docs.spyder-ide.org/current/faq.html#using-existing-e...

Thanks!

Does the installer work with WinPython?

Also, thanks for a great tool!

Sure, it works with any Python installation/environment that has spyder-kernels installed.

Thanks. So far, pip install --upgrade spyder has worked with no hiccups on WinPython, but it's good to know there's an alternative.

How does it compare to PyCharm?

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