diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/spyder/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/science/spyder/default.nix
index 6dbc75e9c062..0952b61551e3 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/science/spyder/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/science/spyder/default.nix
@@ -1,25 +1,27 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, unzip, buildPythonApplication, makeDesktopItem
+{ stdenv, fetchPypi, unzip, buildPythonApplication, makeDesktopItem
 # mandatory
-, pyside
-# recommended
-, pyflakes ? null, rope ? null, sphinx ? null, numpy ? null, scipy ? null, matplotlib ? null
+, qtpy, numpydoc, qtconsole, qtawesome, jedi, pycodestyle, psutil
+, pyflakes, rope, sphinx, nbconvert, mccabe
 # optional
-, ipython ? null, pylint ? null, pep8 ? null
+, numpy ? null, scipy ? null, matplotlib ? null
+# optional
+, pylint ? null
 }:
 
 buildPythonApplication rec {
-  name = "spyder-${version}";
-  version = "2.3.8";
+  pname = "spyder";
+  version = "3.2.4";
   namePrefix = "";
 
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "mirror://pypi/s/spyder/${name}.zip";
-    sha256 = "99fdae2cea325c0f2842c77bd67dd22db19fef3d9c0dde1545b1a2650eae517e";
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "028hg71gfq2yrplwhhl7hl4rbwji1l0zxzghblwmb0i443ki10v3";
   };
 
-  # NOTE: sphinx makes the build fail with: ValueError: ZIP does not support timestamps before 1980
-  propagatedBuildInputs =
-    [ pyside pyflakes rope  numpy scipy matplotlib ipython pylint pep8 ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    jedi pycodestyle psutil qtpy pyflakes rope numpy scipy matplotlib pylint
+    numpydoc qtconsole qtawesome nbconvert mccabe
+  ];
 
   # There is no test for spyder
   doCheck = false;
@@ -36,9 +38,9 @@ buildPythonApplication rec {
 
   # Create desktop item
   postInstall = ''
-    mkdir -p $out/share/{applications,icons}
-    cp  $desktopItem/share/applications/* $out/share/applications/
-    cp  spyderlib/images/spyder.svg $out/share/icons/
+    mkdir -p $out/share/icons
+    cp spyder/images/spyder.svg $out/share/icons
+    cp -r $desktopItem/share/applications/ $out/share
   '';
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index afd11848f9b8..30433a509f4b 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -19028,9 +19028,7 @@ in {
     };
   });
 
-  spyder = callPackage ../applications/science/spyder {
-    rope = if isPy3k then null else self.rope;
-  };
+  spyder = callPackage ../applications/science/spyder { };
 
   sqlalchemy = callPackage ../development/python-modules/sqlalchemy { };