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Spyder 4.2.1 won't launch in Anaconda

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Issue Report Checklist

Searched the issues page for similar reports
Read the relevant sections of the Spyder Troubleshooting Guide and followed its advice
Reproduced the issue after updating with conda update spyder (or pip, if not using Anaconda)
Could not reproduce inside jupyter qtconsole (if console-related)
Tried basic troubleshooting (if a bug/error)
- Restarted Spyder
- Reset preferences with spyder --reset
- Reinstalled the latest version of Anaconda
- Tried the other applicable steps from the Troubleshooting Guide
Completed the Problem Description, Steps to Reproduce and Version sections below

Problem Description

Spyder 4.2.1 won’t launch after update.

What steps reproduce the problem?

launch anaconda navigator and click on spyder
error report, last one was
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘textdistance’

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

If launched from Spyder shortcut nothing happens. From anaconda navigator last error ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘textdistance’

Paste Traceback/Error Below (if applicable)


PASTE TRACEBACK HERE

Versions

Spyder version: 4.2.1
Python version:
Qt version:
PyQt version:
Operating System name/version: windows 10

Dependencies

PASTE DEPENDENCIES HERE

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 3 years ago
Reactions:5
Comments:48 (16 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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ccordoba12commented, Feb 4, 2021

Hey everyone, Anaconda just released new packages for 4.2.1 with fixes for all the errors you reported. Please run

conda update spyder

if you already have 4.2.1, or

conda install spyder=4.2.1

or if you had to roll back to a previous version, and let us know if things are working for you now.

Thanks for your help!

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ccordoba12commented, Feb 4, 2021

It’s not our fault that 4.2.1 was not packaged correctly by the Anaconda team (we don’t have any relationship with them). I verified that they didn’t pick up our new dependencies and patches, which led to this disaster.

I’ll contact them promptly and let them know what they need to do to fix it. For now, there’s nothing you can do to make our 4.2.1 version function correctly, so please stay in 4.2.0 instead.

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