Spyder v2.3.6 Release Notes

  • 🆕 New features

    • IPython Console
      • Make it fully compatible with IPython/Jupyter 4.0
    • Variable Explorer
      • Don't refresh it when focused to avoid slow downs when working with big data
      • Add variable name to DataFrame editor
      • Fix several crashes and freezes when working with DataFrames
    • Under the hood
      • Use PyQt4 API #2 by default (API #1 is not supported anymore). This is necessary to support IPython/Jupyter 4.0

    🐛 Bug fixes

    Issues

    • [Issue 2625](../../issues/2625) - Multiple untitled files generate at close
    • [Issue 2614](../../issues/2614) - Indenting at the first position in file fails/crashes
    • ⚡️ [Issue 2608](../../issues/2608) - Crash after update IPython to 4.0
    • [Issue 2596](../../issues/2596) - Call tips and auto completion tips go out of screen on a second monitor
    • [Issue 2593](../../issues/2593) - Having a lof of data in the Variable explorer slows down Spyder considerably
    • [Issue 2566](../../issues/2566) - Spyder crash on launch with Babel 2.0/Python 3.4
    • [Issue 2560](../../issues/2560) - List of pandas dataframes in variable explorer slows down Spyder
    • [Issue 2517](../../issues/2517) - Variable explorer auto-refreshes after kernel restarts
    • [Issue 2514](../../issues/2514) - DataFrames with headers that contain BOM utf-8 data are freezing/crashing Spyder (in Python 2)
    • [Issue 2491](../../issues/2491) - Spyder crashes when displaying DataFrames with duplicate column names in the Variable Explorer
    • 0️⃣ [Issue 2413](../../issues/2413) - Don't ask to confirm exit on default untitled files
    • [Issue 2315](../../issues/2315) - Display object name in DataFrame editor

    🚀 In this release 12 issues were closed

    Pull requests

    • 🏁 [PR 2639](../../pull/2639) - Fix missing exception on Windows when importing data on the Variable Explorer
    • [PR 2617](../../pull/2617) - Show call tips at right position when there are multiple screens
    • [PR 2615](../../pull/2615) - Fix error when indenting on the first line of a file

    🚀 In this release 3 pull requests were merged