Spyder: Spyder won't launch when installed with Anaconda 2.3.0

[j-hoss]

• Install on a win 7 64 bit laptop.
• Python works and ipython works.
• When i try to launch Spyder, when it gets to "loading file history" it close and says that python.exe (or sometime pythonw.exe) has stopped working.

I tried uninstall and re-install with no luck.

I was able to use the 32 bit version ...

Help?

[ccordoba12]

Please a terminal (i.e. cmd.exe) and run

spyder --reset

then try to start Spyder again. That should fix your problem :-)

[j-hoss]

I launched spyder and observed the issue.
I ran the reset script.
I re-launched Spyder and saw the exact same issue.

[ccordoba12]

Does your user name has some non-ascii characters on it?

[ccordoba12]

Like á, ñ, etc?

[j-hoss]

I do not have any non-ascii characters in my user name.

[j-hoss]

I'll stick with the 32 bit install until the issue is fixed (even though my PC is 64-bit). It is the same issue described by multiple people in "Spyder in Windows 10 is not working correctly #2633".

[dracid]

Sounds like the problem I have here. Windows 8 x64, Anaconda 2.3 x64.
Resetting Spyder does not help at all.

Will try x32 version

[sho-87]

Is any progress being made on this? I'm running the 32bit of spyder/anaconda/python and it cant start on windows 10, so its not just a 64bit issue

[ccordoba12]

Closing then as a duplicate of issue #2633.

[rmalshe]

Here is what happened when I tried
C:\Users\rmalshe>spyder --reset

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\rmalshe\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda3\Scripts\spyder-script.py", line 1, in <module>
    from spyderlib import start_app
  File "C:\Users\rmalshe\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spyderlib\start_app.py", line 13, in <module>
    from spyderlib.config import CONF
  File "C:\Users\rmalshe\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spyderlib\config.py", line 736, in <module>
    subfolder=SUBFOLDER, backup=True, raw_mode=True)
  File "C:\Users\rmalshe\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spyderlib\userconfig.py", line 215, in __init__
    self.load_from_ini()
  File "C:\Users\rmalshe\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spyderlib\userconfig.py", line 260, in load_from_ini
    self.readfp(configfile)
  File "C:\Users\rmalshe\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda3\lib\ConfigParser.py", line 324, in readfp
    self._read(fp, filename)
  File "C:\Users\rmalshe\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda3\lib\ConfigParser.py", line 546, in _read
    raise e
ConfigParser.ParsingError: File contains parsing errors: C:\Users\rmalshe\.spyder2\spyder.ini
        [line 333]: u'_/switch to outl'

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Does anyone know the solution to this problem?

[Nodd]

@rmalshe Try to remove C:\Users\rmalshe\.spyder2\spyder.ini by hand. It's strange that it tries to load it before deleting it. What is you spyder version ?

[rmalshe]

Thank you! that solved the problem. Spyder is very nice to use, and I am somewhat used to it, so it is nice to have it back in action.

[mukulaggarwal]

Im working on mac. Same happen with me, due to some reason.
I run these commands:
ps aux | grep spyder
kill -9 processId(that is generally 4 digit)