Spyder: Spyder 3.2.8 crashes at launch on macOS 10.13.3

[nikon95]

Problem Description

After spyder update to 3.2.8 via conda not able to launch.

Problem persists after dongrading to 3.2.7 and spyder --reset.

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Run Spyder through anaconda distribution
2. Get traceback
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Application launch. Instead spyder quits and traceback on terminal output.

Paste Traceback/Error Below (if applicable)

Unable to open dependencies, installed though conda.
PASTE TRACEBACK HERE
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/user/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/spyder/app/mainwindow.py", line 3208, in main
mainwindow = run_spyder(app, options, args)
File "/Users/user/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/spyder/app/mainwindow.py", line 3084, in run_spyder
main.setup()
File "/Users/user/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/spyder/app/mainwindow.py", line 848, in setup
from spyder.plugins.editor import Editor
File "/Users/user/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/spyder/plugins/editor.py", line 41, in
from spyder.utils.introspection.manager import IntrospectionManager
File "/Users/user/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/spyder/utils/introspection/manager.py", line 21, in
from spyder.utils.introspection.plugin_client import PluginClient
File "/Users/user/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/spyder/utils/introspection/plugin_client.py", line 18, in
import zmq
File "/Users/user/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/zmq/__init__.py", line 34, in
from zmq import backend
File "/Users/user/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/zmq/backend/__init__.py", line 21, in
if platform.python_implementation() == 'PyPy':
File "/Users/user/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/platform.py", line 1234, in python_implementation
return _sys_version()[0]
File "/Users/user/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/platform.py", line 1192, in _sys_version
repr(sys_version))
ValueError: failed to parse CPython sys.version: '3.6.3 |Anaconda custom (64-bit)| (default, Oct 6 2017, 12:04:38) \n[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Clang 4.0.1 (tags/RELEASE_401/final)]'

Package Versions

• Spyder: 3.2.8
• Python: 3.6.3 |Anaconda custom (64-bit)| (default, Oct 6 2017, 12:04:38) \n[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Clang 4.0.1 (tags/RELEASE_401/final)
• Qt:5.6.2
• PyQt:1.3.1
• Operating System: macOS 10.13.3

Dependencies

Unable to open tab

[ccordoba12]

Please open Terminal.app and run there

conda update python pyzmq python.app

to see if that fixes your problem.

[nikon95]

It worked, it just wanted to update pyzmq.

Thank a lot!!

[CAM-Gerlach]

Closed as user resolved issue.

[colasbd]

It worked here as well. 👍