It supports a great many tools native to the Python world (e.g., Jupyter notebooks), but also strives to make those tools accessible and easy to work with. Spyder aims mainly at the science-and-stats crowd, rather than Python software developers, but it includes valuable aids like built-...
For one, many of the features found in a full Python deployment aren’t available by default, such as the Tkinter UI toolkit. (SQLite, though, is included.) Also, tools like pip won’t be readily available; you’ll have to provide any third-party packages manually, or at least set ...