Thank you for replying to posts on this topic and for all your work on Spyder.
The following is simply an FYI, not a complaint - I am very thankful for all that the open source community does on projects like Spyder.
I've used Spyder for quick tasks for many years but only use it rarely now due to the string formatting in the console.
Just this morning I copied a lot of text from the supplementary data of a paper, pasted it into Spyder, processed it, and output it to a nice tab separated table in the console. In other IDEs, I can copy that output and put it straight into my file and it works perfectly but Spyder now replaces all the tabs with spaces. That might be OK if the output were all numbers but the output has descriptions and then numbers in different columns so I end up having to output to a file instead of the console to get something usable. A minor issue, but it negates the value of a lightweight IDE.
In the past I had a lot of issues with unicode in Spyder where the exact same code worked well in command line python and in other IDEs.
Because of these types of issues I find that I'm better off just going to my heavyweight IDE instead of Spyder even for simple tasks if I don't want to do them from the command line.
The following is simply an FYI, not a complaint - I am very thankful for all that the open source community does on projects like Spyder.
I've used Spyder for quick tasks for many years but only use it rarely now due to the string formatting in the console.
Just this morning I copied a lot of text from the supplementary data of a paper, pasted it into Spyder, processed it, and output it to a nice tab separated table in the console. In other IDEs, I can copy that output and put it straight into my file and it works perfectly but Spyder now replaces all the tabs with spaces. That might be OK if the output were all numbers but the output has descriptions and then numbers in different columns so I end up having to output to a file instead of the console to get something usable. A minor issue, but it negates the value of a lightweight IDE.
In the past I had a lot of issues with unicode in Spyder where the exact same code worked well in command line python and in other IDEs.
Because of these types of issues I find that I'm better off just going to my heavyweight IDE instead of Spyder even for simple tasks if I don't want to do them from the command line.