Handling folds in Spyder

Question

I am coming from a VScode background , and for my recent project (on Deep Learning) I am having to manage huge code files in Spyder (Version 3), and I am not seeing any option of code folding?

I am not willing to switch to another IDE , as Spyder is very productive for my project.

Please suggest any hack to do it , if it is not there in the Spyder codebase.

https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/issues/5724 supposedly going to be part of V4 — roganjosh, Sep 18 '18 at 06:55
Not that I'm aware of. It's been raised multiple times on Github but I think the only way is to wait for the release — roganjosh, Sep 18 '18 at 06:57

Carlos Cordoba · Accepted Answer · 2020-01-28T16:56:26.903

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(Spyder maintainer here) You can install the first beta of Spyder 4 to get code folding.

If you use Anaconda, you need to use the following commands:

conda update anaconda

conda update spyder

or if you use pip, then you need to run

pip install -U --pre spyder

This beta is quite stable and it has been tested for more than a year.

edited Jan 28 '20 at 16:56

answered Sep 18 '18 at 16:11

Carlos Cordoba

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The syntax : $ `pip install -U -pre spyder` , replies as `no such option: -p` in the terminal. – abunickabhi Sep 20 '18 at 09:51
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Sorry, it needs to be `--pre`. I updated the answer accordingly. – Carlos Cordoba Sep 20 '18 at 14:43
How to handle conda environments with `spyder=4.0.0b1`?, With above update `spyder-kernels` also gets updated to v1.2.0, while the [modular approach](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/wiki/Working-with-packages-and-environments-in-Spyder#the-modular-approach) for handling environments needs `spyder-kernels==0.*` – steadyfish Mar 29 '19 at 13:47

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 28 '20 at 06:32

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Spyder 4.0.1 is released, which supports code folding. If you are using anaconda, use

conda update --all

to get it.

answered Jan 28 '20 at 06:32

Martin Eckardt

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I have 4.1.5 and it there is no folding in my .py files, Preferences | Editor | Show code folding is enabled. Update: this is a known issue https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/issues/14166 – boardtc Jan 27 '21 at 17:16
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The latest Anaconda comes with 4.1.5, the fix is to move to Spyder 4.2, a pain as upgrades in Anaconda seem inevitably to be – boardtc Jan 27 '21 at 17:26

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered May 16 '22 at 15:03

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If you want to fold more that just a loop or a function, you can also try:

#%% 

Code that you want to fold

#%%

answered May 16 '22 at 15:03

Troncho Col

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Thanks, this works as well! This question is quite old, it did not used to work back then. – abunickabhi May 19 '22 at 04:47

Handling folds in Spyder

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