Setup Toga with Spyder

Goal

Get Toga running ( preferabley with editable source code ) in Spyder and IDE for Python

for Toga see: Toga — Toga 0.3.0.dev10 documentation

This has not been easy, still not working as of July 30: see this page history for other dates.

Unfortunately I tried so many things that some steps and details are lost in the fog of time, here I will try to document the most important steps and results.

After a brief bout with windows, I decided to move to Ubuntu as a virtual machine under my Windows host.

Installed 18.4 then installed Anaconda ( not everything seemed to work ) which did not get me Spyder. So I did a

     apt get spyder3 

which seemed ok, I can now run Spyder

Also ran

• pip install toga-demo

• pip install --upgrade pip >>>> Successfully installed pip-18.0

• toga-demo >>> demo seemed to run

• pip install --pre toga >>> did not get errors

• from Your first Toga app — Toga 0.3.0.dev10 documentation Created russ@ubuntu-18-base:~/python3/projects/toga_1.py

• python -m toga_1.py

/home/russ/anaconda3/bin/python: Error while finding module specification for 'toga_1.py' (AttributeError: module 'toga_1' has no attribute '__path__') russ@ubuntu-18-base:~/python3/projects$ python toga_1.py

• russ@ubuntu-18-base:~/python3/projects$ python -m toga_1.py >>> does not work _>

/home/russ/anaconda3/bin/python: Error while finding module specification for 'toga_1.py' (AttributeError: module 'toga_1' has no attribute '__path__')

• russ@ubuntu-18-base:~/python3/projects$ python toga_1.py >>> does work but button is a big as window, just a detail?

• inside of spyder toga_1.py does not work, but after much messing around I found that changing the pythonpath in spyder would let it run