[FIXED] Sublime text 3 Variable Explorer

Issue

I have searched through the whole internet and didn't find anything useful. Could please anyone suggest how to make a variable explorer in Sublime text 3 like in Spyder?

Solution

(Spyder maintainer here) If you want to create a representation of your current namespace (what is shown in the Variable Explorer), you can take a look at how we build it here, specially the value_to_display function, the one really responsible for that.

The viewers (for lists, dicts, Numpy arrays and DataFrames) are implemented in PyQt, and you can find them here.

To bring the value of a variable from a running IPython kernel and pass it to the viewers, we created our own kernel that serializes a value and sends it to Spyder. In Spyder we deserialize it and pass it to the Viewers here (look for the CreateEditor method).

The process is really more complex than this little explanation, but I hope you can get an idea of how it works.

Answered By - Carlos Cordoba