Spyder¶

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Spyder is the Scientific PYthon Development EnviRonment:https://www.spyder-ide.org/

This guide shows you how to set this up with different version of Qt4 and python compared to the default version provided by operating system. Virtual environment makes this encapsulated from the rest of the environment and thus you can install different versions of python packages and also make the environment more portable.

Load pre-set environment modules¶

module load triton/python/2.7.6
module load qt/4.8.6

Setup you virtualenv¶

mkdir -p /local/mhhakala/virtualenv && cd /local/mhhakala/virtualenv
virtualenv spyder_env
source spyder_env/bin/activate

Install SIP + PyQt to the virtualenv¶

# note, that we now have the virtualenv spyder_env activated
# SIP/PyQt4 do not install with pip, so download first to some location
tar zxf sip-4.16.7.tar.gz
cd sip-4.16.7
python configure.py
make && make install

tar zxf PyQt-x11-gpl-4.10.4.tar.gz
cd PyQt-x11-gpl-4.10.4
python configure.py
make
make install

Install spyder to the virtualenv¶

# still under activated spyder_env
pip install spyder