spyder-terminal 1.3.0

Spyder Plugin for displaying a virtual terminal (OS independent) inside the main Spyder window

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Copyright © 2017–2020 Spyder Project Contributors

Overview

This is a Spyder plugin for displaying an OS independent virtual terminal inside the main Spyder window. It currently supports both Unix-like and Windows operating systems.

Spyder-Terminal allows you to easily execute any bash command inside Spyder, even ncurses programs like nano or vi:

On Windows you can run console applications such as IPython or powershell:

Installation

To install this plugin, you can use either the conda or pip package managers, as follows:

Using conda:

conda create -n spyder-env -c conda-forge spyder-terminal
conda activate spyder-env
spyder

Using pip (only if you don’t use conda!):

pip install spyder-terminal

Note: At the moment it is not possible to use this plugin with the Spyder installers for Windows and macOS. We’re working to make that a reality in the future.

Dependencies

This project depends on

• Spyder

• Tornado

• Pexpect (Posix Systems)

• pywinpty (Windows Systems)

• Coloredlogs

• xterm.js

• Terminado

Changelog

Visit our CHANGELOG file to know more about our new features and improvements.

Server implementation

Besides a Qt terminal, spyder-terminal also provides a web-based terminal interface based on Tornado, which allows you to deploy and serve terminals from a Web/Javascript frontend. To deploy only the server, you can execute the following bash script:

# Shell option:

# On Unix systems this can be bash/tcsh/zsh or any Unix shell:
# bash: /usr/bin/env bash

# On Windows systems this might be cmd or powershell:
# cmd: %SystemRoot%\windows\system32\cmd.exe
# powershell: %SystemRoot%\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe

python -m spyder_terminal.server --port <PORT> --shell <Path to the terminal backend to execute>

Development and contribution

To start contributing to this project, you need to install the yarn and npm package managers. If you use conda, you can run the following command to do that:

conda install -c conda-forge nodejs yarn

Then, please install the package’s dependencies with:

conda create -n spyder-terminal-dev -c conda-forge python=3.12
conda activate spyder-terminal-dev
conda install -c conda-forge --file requirements/{unix,windows}.txt

depending on your operating system.

Afterwards, you need to run

python setup.py build_static

to build the Javascript components for this plugin.

Finally, in order to run our test suite, please install its required dependencies with

conda install -c conda-forge --file requirements/tests.txt

and use pytest to run the server and client tests for the terminal like this

pytest .

Sponsors

Spyder is funded thanks to the generous support of

And the donations we have received from our users around the world through Open Collective:

More information

Main Website

Download Spyder (with Anaconda)

Spyder Github

Troubleshooting Guide and FAQ

Development Wiki

Gitter Chatroom

Google Group

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Support Spyder on OpenCollective