Update Python version on Windows installer to 3.10 to not flag `match` as an error

Description

What steps will reproduce the problem?

I’ve been using python 3.10 on spyder 5.3.3, using the external interpreter to be able to use the last python version (standard included spyder python is 3.8.10). Everything works fine but the pyflakes linter gives sintax errors whenever I use the match - case structure.

This is pretty annoying and I tried to install pyflakes 2.5.0 (which should in theory solve the issue) but there is no effect on Spyder. I installed it from my external terminal, thus I thought that Spyder was still trying to get the internal version of spyder. It turns out that the internal version of pyflakes was still 2.4.0, and I couldn’t upgrade it to 2.5.0 beacause it is not supported by python 3.8.10.

Is it possible to have pyflakes read from my external python build?

Thanks

Versions

• Spyder version: 5.3.3 (standalone)
• Python version: 3.8.10 64-bit
• Qt version: 5.15.2
• PyQt5 version: 5.15.7
• Operating System: Windows 10

Dependencies

# Mandatory:
atomicwrites >=1.2.0                 :  1.4.1 (OK)
chardet >=2.0.0                      :  5.0.0 (OK)
cloudpickle >=0.5.0                  :  2.1.0 (OK)
cookiecutter >=1.6.0                 :  2.1.1 (OK)
diff_match_patch >=20181111          :  20200713 (OK)
intervaltree                         :  None (OK)
IPython >=7.31.1;<8.0.0              :  7.34.0 (OK)
jedi >=0.17.2;<0.19.0                :  0.18.1 (OK)
jellyfish >=0.7                      :  0.9.0 (OK)
jsonschema >=3.2.0                   :  4.14.0 (OK)
keyring >=17.0.0                     :  23.8.2 (OK)
nbconvert >=4.0                      :  7.0.0 (OK)
numpydoc >=0.6.0                     :  1.4.0 (OK)
paramiko >=2.4.0                     :  2.11.0 (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                         :  5.9.1 (OK)
pygments >=2.0                       :  2.13.0 (OK)
pylint >=2.5.0;<3.0                  :  2.15.0 (OK)
pyls_spyder >=0.4.0                  :  0.4.0 (OK)
pylsp >=1.5.0;<1.6.0                 :  1.5.0 (OK)
pylsp_black >=1.2.0                  :  1.2.1 (OK)
qdarkstyle >=3.0.2;<3.1.0            :  3.0.3 (OK)
qstylizer >=0.1.10                   :  0.2.1 (OK)
qtawesome >=1.0.2                    :  1.1.1 (OK)
qtconsole >=5.3.2;<5.4.0             :  5.3.2 (OK)
qtpy >=2.1.0                         :  2.2.0 (OK)
rtree >=0.9.7                        :  1.0.0 (OK)
setuptools >=49.6.0                  :  65.3.0 (OK)
sphinx >=0.6.6                       :  5.1.1 (OK)
spyder_kernels >=2.3.3;<2.4.0        :  2.3.3 (OK)
textdistance >=4.2.0                 :  4.4.0 (OK)
three_merge >=0.1.1                  :  0.1.1 (OK)
watchdog                             :  2.1.9 (OK)
zmq >=22.1.0                         :  23.2.1 (OK)

# Optional:
cython >=0.21                        :  0.29.32 (OK)
matplotlib >=3.0.0                   :  3.5.3 (OK)
numpy >=1.7                          :  1.22.4 (OK)
pandas >=1.1.1                       :  1.4.3 (OK)
scipy >=0.17.0                       :  1.9.1 (OK)
sympy >=0.7.3                        :  1.11 (OK)

# Spyder plugins:
spyder_terminal.terminalplugin 1.2.2 :  1.2.2 (OK)

[acolov]

Alright thank you anyway. I’ll wait for the 5.4.0 then 😉

[ccordoba12]

Ok, I tested this locally with Spyder running on Python 3.7 and Pyflakes 2.5.0, and Pyflakes still marks match as an error. So I think the only solution for this is to update the Python version that comes with our Windows installer to 3.10.

However, that’s going to take us between three to six months because it’s not that easy.