Variable Explorer

Overview

Teaching: 5 min
Exercises: 5 min

Questions

• What does Spyder’s Variable Explorer do for me?

Objectives

• To understand the usefulness of the Variable Explorer.

The Variable Explorer shows the namespace contents (all global object references, such as variables, functions, modules, etc.) of the currently selected IPython Console session, and allows you to interact with them through a variety of GUI-based editors.

Spyder’s Variable Explorer offers built in support for editing lists, strings, dictionaries, NumPy arrays, Pandas DataFrames, and more, and can also histogram, plot, or even display some of them as an RGB image.

Let’s explore the bingo card dictionary

Go to the Variable explorer and select the bingo_card dictionary or whatever you called it. Let’s review its contents and the options available.

Let’s make some changes through the console and the Variable explorer and verify that they both share the same memory space.

Key Points

• The variable explorer allows you to easily inspect the data structures of our program.