Spyder hangs when saving .rst files

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Problem Description

If I create a new file in Spyder and I try to save it as .rst nothing happens.

What steps reproduce the problem?

1. Open Spyder
2. Create a new file
3. Save it as .rst

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

The file shall be saved but some processes seem to hang while saving.

Versions

• Spyder version: 5.2.2 None
• Python version: 3.9.12 64-bit
• Qt version: 5.9.7
• PyQt5 version: 5.9.2
• Operating System: Windows 10

Dependencies

Mandatory:

atomicwrites >=1.2.0 : 1.4.0 (OK) chardet >=2.0.0 : 4.0.0 (OK) cloudpickle >=0.5.0 : 2.0.0 (OK) cookiecutter >=1.6.0 : 1.7.3 (OK) diff_match_patch >=20181111 : 20200713 (OK) intervaltree >=3.0.2 : 3.1.0 (OK) IPython >=7.6.0;<8.0.0 : 7.31.1 (OK) jedi >=0.17.2;<0.19.0 : 0.18.1 (OK) jellyfish >=0.7 : 0.9.0 (OK) jsonschema >=3.2.0 : 4.4.0 (OK) keyring >=17.0.0 : 23.4.0 (OK) nbconvert >=4.0 : 6.4.4 (OK) numpydoc >=0.6.0 : 1.4.0 (OK) paramiko >=2.4.0 : 2.8.1 (OK) parso >=0.7.0;<0.9.0 : 0.8.3 (OK) pexpect >=4.4.0 : 4.8.0 (OK) pickleshare >=0.4 : 0.7.5 (OK) psutil >=5.3 : 5.9.0 (OK) pygments >=2.0 : 2.11.2 (OK) pylint >=2.5.0 : 2.14.5 (OK) pyls_spyder >=0.4.0 : 0.4.0 (OK) pylsp >=1.3.2;<1.4.0 : 1.3.3 (OK) pylsp_black >=1.0.0 : 1.0.0 (OK) qdarkstyle =3.0.2 : 3.0.2 (OK) qstylizer >=0.1.10 : 0.1.10 (OK) qtawesome >=1.0.2 : 1.0.3 (OK) qtconsole >=5.2.1;<5.3.0 : 5.2.2 (OK) qtpy >=1.5.0 : 2.0.1 (OK) rtree >=0.9.7 : 0.9.7 (OK) setuptools >=49.6.0 : 63.4.1 (OK) sphinx >=0.6.6 : 5.0.2 (OK) spyder_kernels >=2.2.1;<2.3.0 : 2.2.1 (OK) textdistance >=4.2.0 : 4.2.1 (OK) three_merge >=0.1.1 : 0.1.1 (OK) watchdog >=0.10.3 : 2.1.6 (OK) zmq >=17 : 23.2.0 (OK)

Optional:

cython >=0.21 : 0.29.30 (OK) matplotlib >=2.0.0 : 3.5.2 (OK) numpy >=1.7 : 1.21.5 (OK) pandas >=1.1.1 : 1.4.3 (OK) scipy >=0.17.0 : 1.7.3 (OK) sympy >=0.7.3 : 1.10.1 (OK)

[dalthviz]

I was checking also an old issue with .html and the one with .pyx files and seems like that is what is causing the problem. Adding an extra validation to only trigger the autoformat for python files seems like fixes this too 👍

[ccordoba12]

Yeah, that’s a great guess! Did you try it?