Launching the Spyder IDE

Spyder can be started by passing spyder into the Anaconda prompt as follows: 

(base) $ spyder

As mentioned earlier, Spyder uses the IPython interactive console. So, you can pass code line-by-line directly into the console. See the following screenshot for two lines of Python code passed one at a time:

Alternatively, you can edit a script in the editor and execute by pressing the green play button at the top of the IDE. This causes the script to be dumped into the IPython console, then run line-by-line: 

The interactive IPython console also can display images and plots inline in the same console window. This is yet another feature that is very convenient for interactive data mining and rapid prototyping of analytics models: