How to start Spyder IDE on Windows

Question

I downloaded spyder using the

pip install spyder

in my windows 10 32-bit operating system, but i dont see any desktop icons or exe files to start r

Answer 1

Try the command spyder3 If you check the scripts folder you'll find spyder3.exe

Answer 2

In case if you want the desktop icon

In desktop, create a new shortcut, in Location paste this

%comspec% /k spyder3

then type the name Spyder,

Now you may have Desktop Icon for opening Spyder

Answer 3

As stated in the documentation of Spyder, you need to install PyQt5 first.

Open a Command Prompt as Administrator, then run:

pip install pyqt5
pip install spyder

Then you can find the spyder3.exe in the Python3.6/Scripts folder. You can also make a shortcut to it. No need for Anaconda.

Answer 4

After pip install spyder give this command

pip install --upgrade spyder

This command will update all Spyder dependencies.

Now in command prompt(cmd) navigate to the scripts folder in your python directory. In my system the path is C:\Users\win10\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\Scripts so i use the following command in command prompt.

cd C:\Users\win10\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\Scripts

once you are inside scripts directory type spyder3 and press enter and spyder ide starts.

C:\Users\win10\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\Scripts>spyder3

Answer 5

Try these commands in order

pip3 install spyder
spyder3

Answer 6

on windows,

1. pip install --upgrade spyder

2. in powershell, start python shell, by typing python

   from spyder.app import start
   start.main()
   

That't it.