Command prompt shows wrong shell

I just installed Spyder terminal w Spyder 4.0.1 inside my Anaconda3 environment on a MacBook Pro OS 10.15.3 (Catalina). I’d previously changed my default terminal shell to zsh, as instructed by Apple. On opening the Terminal tab in Spyder, it seems to think it’s using bash, but it’s actually using zsh.

What steps will reproduce the problem?

On opening, I see this, as expected:

The default interactive shell is now zsh.
To update your account to use zsh, please run `chsh -s /bin/zsh`.
For more details, please visit https://support.apple.com/kb/HT208050.
bash-3.2$ 

but if I check the shell, I see this:

bash-3.2$ echo $SHELL
/bin/zsh
bash-3.2$ 

What is the expected output? What do you see instead? I’ve run chsh -s /bin/zsh but of course it says nothing to change, as it’s already using zsh.

Please provide any additional information below

Versions and main components

• Terminal Version: 0.3.0
• Spyder Version: 4.0.1
• Python Version: 3.7.6
• Operating system: MacOS 10.15.3

[sjgenco]

Thank you. That did work. An additional wrinkle you might want to look at is the fact that I was actually running the zsh shell already, but Spyder Terminal was showing the bash prompt even though zsh, not bash, was my current shell. So that’s somewhat different problem than not knowing how to change the shell. Thanks for the quick reply and solution!

On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 2:33 PM Stephannie Jimenez Gacha < [e-mail]> wrote:

@sjgenco https://github.com/sjgenco, you are able to change the default terminal shell under the preferences of spyder, bash is the predetermined option.

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You have to reset spyder to see the changes. Please let me know if it works for you.

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[ccordoba12]

@steff456, I agree with @goanpeca, we need to address this because it’s very confusing to select a different shell type and always get a bash prompt in return.

Please see this for some ideas on how to do it:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3327013/how-to-determine-the-current-shell-im-working-on