Spyder: SPYDER_DEBUG=3 is failing on Windows

[gabrielclow]

Description of your problem

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Updated to 3.2 through "conda update --all"
2. Open Spyder and try to run any script through F5
3. Executed spyder --reset and spyder --default
4. Also tried "conda uninstall spyder" and then "conda install spyder"
5. Also restarted PC

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I expect the script to run, instead I get "NameError: name 'runfile' is not defined"

Please provide any additional information below
"C:...>set SPYDER_DEBUG=3
C:...>spyder --show-console

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\gabriel\Anaconda3\Scripts\spyder-script.py", line 5, in
sys.exit(spyder.app.start.main())
File "C:\Users\gabriel\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spyder\app\start.py", line 136, in main
mainwindow.main()
File "C:\Users\gabriel\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spyder\app\mainwindow.py", line 3025, in main
or options.optimize)
File "C:\Users\gabriel\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spyder\utils\windows.py", line 33, in set_attached_console_visible
return bool(ShowWindow(console_window_handle, flag[state]))
KeyError: 3"

Not sure if related but I also get this when updating/installing/uninstalling Spyder through conda
" INFO menuinst_win32:__init__(182): Menu: name: 'Anaconda${PY_VER} ${PLATFORM}', prefix: 'C:\Users\xyz\Anaconda3', env_name: 'None', mode: 'None', used_mode: 'user' "

Versions and main components

• Spyder Version: 3.2.0
• Python Version: 3.6.2
• Qt Version: 5.6.2
• PyQt Version: 5.6.0
• Operating system: Windows 10 64 bits

Dependencies

Please go to the menu entry Help > Optional Dependencies (or
Help > Dependencies), press the button Copy to clipboard
and paste the contents below:

IPython >=4.0 : 6.1.0 (OK)
cython >=0.21 : None (NOK)
jedi >=0.9.0 : 0.10.2 (OK)
nbconvert >=4.0 : 5.2.1 (OK)
numpy >=1.7 : 1.13.1 (OK)
pandas >=0.13.1 : 0.20.3 (OK)
pycodestyle >=2.3: 2.3.1 (OK)
pyflakes >=0.6.0 : 1.5.0 (OK)
pygments >=2.0 : 2.2.0 (OK)
pylint >=0.25 : 1.6.4 (OK)
qtconsole >=4.2.0: 4.3.0 (OK)
rope >=0.9.4 : 0.9.4-1 (OK)
sphinx >=0.6.6 : 1.6.2 (OK)
sympy >=0.7.3 : 1.1 (OK)

[ccordoba12]

I'm sorry, I don't know what's happening in your case. We'll fix SPYDER_DEBUG=3 on Windows for 3.2.1 so at least we can see what's preventing from runfile to be defined in the console.

[ccordoba12]

@dalthviz, please work on this one.

[gabrielclow]

I've tried a few more things and I believe now its an Anaconda issue. Uninstalled Anaconda and reinstalled it, but this time I updated Spyder only instead of doing conda update --all. This way I was able to run scripts just fine on Spyder 3.2 with runfile. I think something is breaking during conda update --all

The SPYDER_DEBUG = 3 still fails, though

[ccordoba12]

This way I was able to run scripts just fine on Spyder 3.2

Great! At least you found a workaround for your problem.

The SPYDER_DEBUG = 3 still fails, though

Yeah, that's a known problem, but as I said, we'll fix it for 3.2.1.

[ccordoba12]

@dalthviz, I think @gabrielclow last comment provided a way to reproduce this problem. Please create a new conda environment and install Anaconda there, like this

conda create -n runfile-fix anaconda

Then run in that env

conda update --all

and see if you can run scripts in Spyder or not.

[dalthviz]

@ccordoba12 I tested with the steps you provided but I was able to run a script

[ccordoba12]

Ok, too bad...

[dalthviz]

Maybe the problem was the env where @gabrielclow tried to update with conda update --all?

[gabrielclow]

I believe it was my env. I don't remember installing any pip packages but it's been some time. I still can't update everything because conda hangs and acts weird, but I think thats not Spyder at all because I'm using 3.2 normally now. Thanks for your help