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See several projects at the same time on the explorer

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Description of your problem

I think you have done a great work on the “new projects” for Spyder 3, but I have serious doubt.

It’s still possible to see several projects at the same time on the explorer, as we could do on Spyder 2?

This was really useful and, in Spyder 3, if it could be done, I don’t see how.

What steps will reproduce the problem?

Open an existing project which is located on a folder (working directory?) which contains another Spyder 3 projects

What is the expected output? What do you see instead? I expect to see on the Project Explorer Pane (or other similar Pane) the project I have already opened and the other Spyder 3 projects located on the same folder (as it was on Spyder 2)

What I see instead is just the opened project. If I want to check something on a script from another project I have to open the other project, do my checks, and reopen the project I was working on.

Please provide any additional information below If it could be done, please, let me know how. And maybe a good idea could be put an advise somewhere of how to do it. (As well as a guide to “migrate” projects from Spyder 2 to Spyder 3)

If it couldn’t be done, I really think that is a great disadvantage from Spyder 2 and it should be reviewed.

Versions and main components

Spyder Version: 3.1.4
Python Version: 3.6
Qt Version: 5.6.2
PyQt Version: PyQt5 5.6
Operating system: Windows

Dependencies

Please go to the menu entry Help > Optional Dependencies (or Help > Dependencies), press the button Copy to clipboard and paste the contents below: jedi >=0.9.0 : 0.9.0 (OK) matplotlib >=1.0 : 2.0.0 (OK) nbconvert >=4.0 : 4.2.0 (OK) numpy >=1.7 : 1.11.3 (OK) pandas >=0.13.1 : 0.19.2 (OK) pep8 >=0.6 : 1.7.0 (OK) pyflakes >=0.6.0 : 1.5.0 (OK) pygments >=2.0 : 2.1.3 (OK) pylint >=0.25 : 1.6.4 (OK) qtconsole >=4.2.0: 4.2.1 (OK) rope >=0.9.4 : 0.9.4-1 (OK) sphinx >=0.6.6 : 1.5.1 (OK) sympy >=0.7.3 : 1.0 (OK)

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Created 6 years ago
Comments:15 (6 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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ccordoba12commented, May 10, 2017

It’s still possible to see several projects at the same time on the explorer, as we could do on Spyder 2?

This was really useful and, in Spyder 3, if it could be done, I don’t see how.

Sorry, since Spyder 3 it’s not possible to have multiple projects in the Project Explorer. We know this is a bit of a regression from Spyder 2, but we decided to only allow one project at a time for simplicity and ease of use.

I hope it’s ok for you.

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ccordoba12commented, Nov 13, 2019

We reconsidered this and it’ll be added to Spyder 5, to be released next year.

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