Been a couple of weeks now. Wondering if you guys might have a quick chance to give it a quick go over before any merge incompatibilities creep in between it and HEAD. Thanks. 😃

Is this package meant to be used by other python packages?

I don't believe so. It a scientific python IDE. The withPackages addition is so you can specify what packages are available in its interactive sessions.

Then I would highly recommend removing it from python-modules and putting it into applications/scientific or something simliar

You can use it as a library to e.g. embed the spyder editor widget in another application, like CQ-editor. (See issue #65830.) That's why I've made spyder a python module in the first place.

I'll have a look today

interesting, I'm not super familiar with spyder, but if you did want to use it as a dependency in other packages, then I would recommend against doing the withPackages, as this might break composibility with other python packages.

I will defer to @FRidh though, as he's more familiar with withPackages and it's implications

I think this is no longer needed, see #70986 (comment).

I think withPackages shouldn't conflict as it is a python passthru (i.e., as in python.withPackages ...) and not a python packages passthru. That is, using nix repl

nix-repl>  :l <nixpkgs>
nix-repl> lib.attrNames python.passthru
[ "buildEnv" "executable" "implementation" "interpreter" "isPy2" "isPy27" "isPy3" "isPy33" "isPy34" "isPy35" "isPy36" "isPy37" "isPy3k" "isPyPy" "libPrefix" "pkgs" "pythonAtLeast" "pythonForBuild" "pythonOlder" "pythonVersion" "sitePackages" "sourceVersion" "ucsEncoding" "withPackages" ]

while

nix-repl> lib.attrNames pythonPackages.nltk.passthru
[ "pythonModule" "pythonPath" "requiredPythonModules" ]

My understanding of 6e9743f is that it addresses the fact that IPython wouldn't start, but it doesn't address the need to be able to specify the packages that are available in that IPython session (which would be whatever the code you are working on requires).

imports work fine. E.g., if I add numpy to the env I can import it.

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