Can we use Spyder 4?

[Anonymous]

I've been finding it hard not having any code folding features in Spyder 2 but have seen that they have added this in Spyder 4.

To install Spyder 4 I installed Anaconda (3.5.3 to match Fusions version of Python) and then installed the latest Spyder 4 following these instructions.

This all went well, however when I click "Edit script" from within Fusion it still opens Spyder 2.3.2.

Is it possible to make Fusion use the latest version of Spyder?

[JesusFreke · Accepted solution]

Fusion 360 includes a bundled version of Spyder that it launches, with some custom stuff for communicating with fusion for launching scripts and debugging. You would have to dig into the existing spyder 2 implementation and try to port the custom stuff they've done to spyder 4.

Possible... probably. But it would require a fair bit of work.

Personally, I didn't find the spyder experience very compelling, especially after being used to a much fuller feature IDE like IntelliJ IDEA/PyCharm. Which is why I ended up creating a PyCharm plugin 🙂

[Anonymous]

Oh WOW - I did not realise that exists! I 100% agree, I'd much rather use PyCharm than any version of Spyder.

Thank you very much for writing this plugin! I will install it and start using straight away.