Spyder 3.7 troubleshooting

Running Jupyter Notebooks in Spyder 3.7

Spyder 3.7 can open and render Jupyter notebooks. This is useful when your notebook depends on libraries that need a graphical windowing system. To use notebooks in Spyder, you first need to install the notebook integration plugin, then enable the notebook pane, and finally open the notebook from within that pane.

Step 1: Install the notebook plugin

Open the Terminal inside Spyder and run:

mamba install -c spyder-ide spyder-notebook

In most Spyder layouts, the Terminal is the last sub-tab in the upper-right pane. After the installation finishes, restart Spyder if needed so the notebook functionality becomes available. The original page instructs users to install spyder-notebook from the spyder-ide channel.

Step 2: Enable the Notebook pane

In the Spyder menu bar, go to:

View → Panes → Notebook

This makes the notebook pane visible inside Spyder. The documentation indicates that the notebook pane must be enabled before you can open notebooks there.

Step 3: Open a notebook

In the Notebook pane, click the gear icon and choose the notebook file you want to open. Spyder will then load the .ipynb file into the notebook pane for viewing and execution.

If it still does not work

Check that the spyder-notebook package installed successfully, and confirm that you are running Spyder 3.7. If the Notebook pane does not appear after installation, restart the application and then enable the pane again from View → Panes → Notebook.