Console

The Console is where you may enter, interact with and visualize data, inside a command interpreter. All the commands entered in the console are executed in a separate process, thus allowing the user to interrupt any process at any time.

Many command windows may be created in the Console:

• Python interpreter
• Running Python script
• System command window (this terminal emulation window has quite limited features compared to a real terminal: it may be useful on Windows platforms where the system terminal is not much more powerful - on the contrary, on GNU/Linux, a real system terminal is opened, outside Spyder)

Python-based command windows support the following features:

• Code completion and calltips
• Variable explorer with GUI-based editors for arrays, lists, dictionaries, strings, etc.
• Debugging with standard Python debugger (pdb): at each breakpoint the corresponding script is opened in the Editor at the breakpoint line number
• User Module Deleter (see below)

Related plugins:

• Help
• History log
• Editor
• File Explorer