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Spyder Won't Launch

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Description of your problem

What steps will reproduce the problem?

Open Anaconda Launcher
Find Syper, “click” Run
executable script window appears
Sypder doesn’t launch

What is the expected output? What do you see instead? Expect to see Spyder launch screen and for spyder to load

Please provide any additional information below ran the following with “show console” and “reset” command, get the same error (see below).

Versions and main components

Spyder Version: 2.3.8
Python Version: 2.7.11
Operating system: windows 10 64big

Dependencies

Anaconda Stack

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Issue Analytics

State:
Created 7 years ago
Reactions:2
Comments:82 (14 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

90reactions

ccordoba12commented, Apr 27, 2016

Could you run in a terminal

spyder --reset

and try again?

19reactions

SagarPohekarcommented, Sep 12, 2017

Guys, I have observed the same problem: Solution: Uninstall PyQt and then uninstall the SIP package Reinstall above packages but in following sequence: 1 SIP 2 PyQt4/5 Try to launch Spyder, it works I have tested this on Python 3.5.2 and 3.6.2