Developing in Spyder

[behnam-zakeri]

This is a thread to collect tips for and experiences developing for MESSAGEix in Spyder. In particular, we can talk about how to easily implement the code style that applies to ixmp, message_ix, message-ix-models, and message_data (private).

[behnam-zakeri]

Here are the extensions I use:

• Black and Autopep8 Formatter: Spyder has built-in support for automatically formatting your code using several popular tools, including Autopep8 and Black, which can format the code on save.
• isort: It seems there is no possibility to configure Spyder to run isort automatically (see this issue). I personally run isort from the command line on my file, when I want to submit a PR. But I admit this is not optimal.