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AI-generatedDoes Spyder Variable Explorer auto‑refresh mutable objects after in‑place changes?
When working in Spyder, the Variable Explorer lists all objects in the current IPython session. It refreshes automatically when new variables are created, but it appears to ignore in‑place modifications of mutable objects such as lists, dictionaries, or pandas DataFrames. The design choice to treat refresh as a manual action is intended to avoid performance
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