Spyder executable file opened on launch

Problem Description

When I launch spyder from the command line, the spyder window launches with the previous state as is expected, then also opens the spyder executable file, in my case ~/anaconda3/bin/spyder.

What steps reproduce the problem?

1. type spyder at the command line, hit enter

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

this file not to be opened at launch

Versions

• Spyder version: 4.0.0b6 (was also happening with beta5)
• Python version: Python 3.7.0 64-bit
• Qt version: Qt 5.9.6
• PyQt version: PyQt5 5.9.2
• Operating System name/version: Darwin 19.0.0

Dependencies

cloudpickle >=0.5.0          :  1.2.2 (OK)
pygments >=2.0               :  2.4.2 (OK)
qtconsole >=4.5.5            :  4.5.5 (OK)
nbconvert >=4.0              :  5.6.0 (OK)
sphinx >=0.6.6               :  2.2.0 (OK)
pylint >=0.25                :  2.4.2 (OK)
psutil >=0.3                 :  5.6.3 (OK)
qtawesome >=0.5.7            :  0.6.0 (OK)
qtpy >=1.5.0                 :  1.9.0 (OK)
pickleshare >=0.4            :  0.7.5 (OK)
zmq >=17                     :  18.1.0 (OK)
chardet >=2.0.0              :  3.0.4 (OK)
numpydoc >=0.6.0             :  0.9.1 (OK)
spyder_kernels >=1.5.0;<2.0.0:  1.5.0 (OK)
qdarkstyle >=2.7             :  2.7 (OK)
atomicwrites >=1.2.0         :  1.3.0 (OK)
diff_match_patch >=20181111  :  20181111 (OK)
watchdog                     :  None (OK)
keyring                      :  None (OK)
pexpect >=4.4.0              :  4.7.0 (OK)
pympler                      :  None (OK)
sympy >=0.7.3                :  1.4 (OK)
cython >=0.21                :  0.29.13 (OK)
IPython >=4.0                :  7.8.0 (OK)
matplotlib >=2.0.0           :  3.1.1 (OK)
pandas >=0.13.1              :  0.25.1 (OK)
numpy >=1.7                  :  1.17.2 (OK)
scipy >=0.17.0               :  1.3.1 (OK)
pyls >=0.28.2;<0.29.0        :  0.28.3 (OK)
rtree >=0.8.3                :  0.8.3 (OK)

[ccordoba12]

This problem is already fixed (see PR #14564). If you’re using Conda-forge, you can get the fix by updating Spyder (I patched 4.2.1 with the changes in that PR). For pip or any other installation method, you’ll have to wait until 4.2.2 (to be released in February 15th) for it.

[richardmccall]

This seems to have reappeared after installing macOS Big Sur:

• Spyder version: 4.2.1 None
• Python version: 3.7.3 64-bit
• Qt version: 5.12.8
• PyQt5 version: 5.12.3
• Operating System: Darwin 20.2.0