Spyder FAQ: How do I use additional packages if I downloaded Spyder from the standalone installers?
Why Stack Overflow recommends it
Stack Overflow users link it, including a Spyder maintainer, when someone on the standalone Spyder installer hits "module not found" or cannot import numpy, scikit-learn or tkinter.
Recommended by 4 people across 4 different months, 2021 to 2022.
What it is
A 2m39s official Spyder IDE tutorial showing how to make extra Python packages available in Spyder when it was installed with the standalone installers. It walks through pointing Spyder at an external conda environment so that packages installed there can be imported.
What people said
Recommends Carlos Cordoba · 2021-08 · Stack Overflow · on “How to install python and a working ide on the MacBook Air M1”
(*Spyder maintainer here*) Sorry that your first time experience with Python was so painful. To connect the Spyder version that comes with our dmg installer with your Anaconda installation, please follow the instructions in our video [this video] . If you have any more problems, please let me know here.
Recommends Daniel Althviz · 2021-09 · Stack Overflow · on “Numpy is not working in Spyder 3.8 (Python 3)”
Just in case, to change the interpreter or use packages with the installer version of Spyder maybe this video could be useful: [this video]
Recommends Labour · 2022-01 · Stack Overflow · on “Module not found in Spyder outside of Anaconda”
I found the solution, which is to create a new environment and link to it, on the Spyder FAQ: [LINK] The video was helpful: [this video] It seems I can use the Python version installed through conda (in opt/anaconda3) and base an 'environment' on this, adding modules by first activating the environment and then using conda install . Meanwhile, I still cannot launch Spyder from Anaconda-Navigator. /Users/myname/opt/anaconda3/bin/pythonw: line 3: /Users/myname/opt/anaconda3/python.app/Contents/MacOS/python: No such file or directory Probably reinstalling will solve this. But I'm good for now.
Recommends rickhg12hs · 2022-02 · Stack Overflow · on “scikit-learn not showing up on Location”
These resources look helpful. Q: How do I install Python packages to use within Spyder if I downloaded Spyder from the standalone installers? [LINK] [this video]
Cites NoahVerner · 2022-01 · Stack Overflow · on “How to correctly import tkinter module on Spyder? Python 3.9.6 related”
I want to create a python executable file with tkinter module, so far this is the code I have typed: import tkinter as Tk from tkinter import geometry, title, BooleanVar, set, Button from tkinter import filedialog import subprocess root = Tk() root.geometry('500x400') root.title("Bulk upload to OpenSea") I know that tkinter module doesn't come by default on Spyder environment, so before compiling the program above, I watched this video [this video] , then installed miniconda, and then did all the necesary steps explained in that video to allow importing the tkinter module, I also changed the default environment to C:\Users\ResetStoreX\miniconda3\envs\spyder-env\python.exe which is the PATH in whi