title: Basics of setting up a Spyder workspace and projects
body: <p>I have searched for a basic tutorial regarding workspaces and projects in the Spyder IDE. What I want to understand is the basic concepts of how to use the workspace and projects to organize my code. It seems that this is perhaps basic programming skills and that is the reason why I have issues finding any kind of overview. <a href="http://www.google.se/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0CCAQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cs.bham.ac.uk%2F~pjh%2Fprolog_module%2Fspider%2Fcreating_a_project.html&amp;ei=0yDbVKCfG87iO4XugKgM&amp;usg=AFQjCNF91NemiAYbFMCHSlrlO9dhua9sWA&amp;sig2=kkqs-XS_wtsTQkHLidXOPQ&amp;bvm=bv.85761416,d.ZWU" rel="noreferrer">This page</a> seems to be related, but is actually about Eclipse and rather sparse. The Pythonxy tutorial and the <a href="https://docs.spyder-ide.org/" rel="noreferrer">documentation for Spyder</a> does not go into any detail. Neither does the Anaconda documentation.</p>
  
  <p>The questions I have are:</p>
  
  <p>When should I set up a new workspace (if ever)?</p>
  
  <p>When do I create a new project?</p>
  
  <p>How does the PYTHONPATH depend on my workspace and project settings? Is it the same in all cases or can I customize it per workspace/project?</p>
  
  <p>Are there other settings apart from the PYTHONPATH that I should configure?</p>
  
  <p>How specific are the answers above to Spyder? Would it be the same for other IDEs, like Eclipse?</p>
  
  <p>I am running Spyder on 64-bit Windows 7, as part of the Anaconda package.</p>