Command line options

Spyder’s command line options are the following: (type ‘python spyder.py –help’ to show the text below)

Options:

-h, --help	show this help message and exit
-l, --light	Light version (all add-ons are disabled)
--session=STARTUP_SESSION
	Startup session
--defaults	Reset to configuration settings to defaults
--reset	Remove all configuration files!
--optimize	Optimize Spyder bytecode (this may require administrative privileges)
-w WORKING_DIRECTORY, --workdir=WORKING_DIRECTORY
	Default working directory
-d, --debug	Debug mode (stds are not redirected)
--multithread	Internal console is executed in another thread (separate from main application thread)
--profile	Profile mode (internal test, not related with Python profiling)