Ctrl+Click on the name of a module doesn't open it

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• [ x ] Completed the Problem Description, Steps to Reproduce and Version sections below

Problem Description

When using control + click on the name of a module, Spyder used to open that module in another tab. But for some reason this doesn’t work anymore for me.

What steps reproduce the problem?

Create a script test1.py and save it:

#test1.py
print("a")

In the same folder, create the following script test2.py:

#test2.py
import test1

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

Now, when working on test2.py, ctrl+clicking on the word “test1” should open the script test1.py in another tab… but that doesn’t happen as it should be.

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Versions

• Spyder version: 5.0.3
• Python version: 3.7.10 64-bit
• Qt version: 5.9.6
• PyQt version: 5.9.2
• Operating System name/version: Windows 10

Dependencies

# Mandatory:
atomicwrites >=1.2.0          :  1.4.0 (OK)
chardet >=2.0.0               :  4.0.0 (OK)
cloudpickle >=0.5.0           :  1.6.0 (OK)
cookiecutter >=1.6.0          :  1.7.2 (OK)
diff_match_patch >=20181111   :  20200713 (OK)
intervaltree >=3.0.2          :  3.1.0 (OK)
IPython >=7.6.0               :  7.22.0 (OK)
jedi =0.17.2                  :  0.17.2 (OK)
jsonschema >=3.2.0            :  3.2.0 (OK)
keyring >=17.0.0              :  23.0.1 (OK)
nbconvert >=4.0               :  6.0.7 (OK)
numpydoc >=0.6.0              :  1.1.0 (OK)
paramiko >=2.4.0              :  2.7.2 (OK)
parso =0.7.0                  :  0.7.0 (OK)
pexpect >=4.4.0               :  4.8.0 (OK)
pickleshare >=0.4             :  0.7.5 (OK)
psutil >=5.3                  :  5.8.0 (OK)
pygments >=2.0                :  2.9.0 (OK)
pylint >=1.0                  :  2.8.3 (OK)
pyls >=0.36.2;<1.0.0          :  0.36.2 (OK)
pyls_black >=0.4.6            :  0.4.6 (OK)
pyls_spyder >=0.3.2;<0.4.0    :  0.3.2 (OK)
qdarkstyle =3.0.2             :  3.0.2 (OK)
qstylizer >=0.1.10            :  0.1.10 (OK)
qtawesome >=1.0.2             :  1.0.2 (OK)
qtconsole >=5.1.0             :  5.1.0 (OK)
qtpy >=1.5.0                  :  1.9.0 (OK)
rtree >=0.9.7                 :  0.9.7 (OK)
setuptools >=39.0.0           :  52.0.0.post20210125 (OK)
sphinx >=0.6.6                :  4.0.1 (OK)
spyder_kernels >=2.0.3;<2.1.0 :  2.0.3 (OK)
textdistance >=4.2.0          :  4.2.1 (OK)
three_merge >=0.1.1           :  0.1.1 (OK)
watchdog >=0.10.3;<2.0.0      :  1.0.2 (OK)
zmq >=17                      :  20.0.0 (OK)

# Optional:
cython >=0.21                 :  None (NOK)
matplotlib >=2.0.0            :  None (NOK)
numpy >=1.7                   :  1.20.2 (OK)
pandas >=1.1.1                :  1.2.4 (OK)
scipy >=0.17.0                :  None (NOK)
sympy >=0.7.3                 :  None (NOK)

[robobobeng]

Sorry for the answering delay. The workaround of adding the scripts directory in the PYTHONPATH manager is working.

[ccordoba12]

Closing as a duplicate of issue #13358.