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New IPython consoles or restart of kernel not working because of pkg_resources error

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Description

What steps will reproduce the problem?

Stat spyder
try to create a new ipython console (in Consoles-> Open an IPython console

What is the expected output? What do you see instead? A new console should appear but the new console immediately stops with the following error:

Error in sitecustomize; set PYTHONVERBOSE for traceback:
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not callable
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/pyzo2014a/lib/python3.4/site‑packages/spyderlib/widgets/externalshell/start_ipython_kernel.py", line 175, in 
from IPython.kernel.zmq.kernelapp import IPKernelApp
File "pyzo2014a/lib/python3.4/site‑packages/IPython/__init__.py", line 48, in 
from .terminal.embed import embed
File "pyzo2014a/lib/python3.4/site‑packages/IPython/terminal/embed.py", line 16, in 
from IPython.core.interactiveshell import DummyMod
File "pyzo2014a/lib/python3.4/site‑packages/IPython/core/interactiveshell.py", line 31, in 
from pickleshare import PickleShareDB
File "pyzo2014a/lib/python3.4/site‑packages/pickleshare.py", line 41, in 
from path import path as Path
File "pyzo2014a/lib/python3.4/site‑packages/path.py", line 122, in 
__version__ = pkg_resources.require('path.py')[0].version
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not callable

Please provide any additional information below

Version and main components

Spyder Version: 2.3.6
Python Version: 3.4.3
Qt Versions: 4.8.6, PyQt4 (API v2) 4.11.3 on Linux

Optional dependencies

pyflakes >=0.6.0:  0.9.2 (OK)
pep8 >=0.6      :  1.6.2 (OK)
pygments >=1.6  :  2.0.2 (OK)
IPython >=1.0   :  4.0.0 (OK)
zmq >=2.1.11    :  14.7.0 (OK)
qtconsole >=4.0 :  4.0.1 (OK)
pandas >=0.13.1 :  0.16.2 (OK)
sphinx >=0.6.6  :  1.2.3 (OK)
psutil >=0.3    :  2.2.1 (OK)
rope >=0.9.2    :  0.9.4-1 (OK)
jedi >=0.8.1    :  0.9.0 (OK)
matplotlib >=1.0:  1.4.3 (OK)
sympy >=0.7.3   :  0.7.6.1 (OK)
pylint >=0.25   :  0.25.1 (OK)

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State:
Created 8 years ago
Comments:47 (15 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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ccordoba12commented, May 22, 2017

Glad spyder --reset worked for you!

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mp-v2commented, May 22, 2017

Hey, my final hope (which you suggested in some google groups forum) was to reset Spyder (spyder --reset) which fixed it. Had to reset my preferences etc but it works now, sorry I have no idea what the issue was!

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