UUID crash on Spyder 3.2.4/3.2.6 startup

Description

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Open Spyder from anaconda, or console (MacOS 10.13.3)
2. Spyder will crash
3. NB. I have tried conda update conda, conda update anaconda, conda update --all. No avail.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead? Spyder crashes. uuid.uuid1() appears to be the cause. importing uuid and running uuid.uuid1() into ipython also raises the same error.

Please provide any additional information below

File “/Users/pjh523/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/spyder/plugins/ipythonconsole.py”, line 950, in update_working_directory shellwidget.get_cwd() File “/Users/pjh523/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/spyder/widgets/ipythonconsole/shell.py”, line 128, in get_cwd self.silent_exec_method(code) File “/Users/pjh523/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/spyder/widgets/ipythonconsole/shell.py”, line 340, in silent_exec_method local_uuid = to_text_string(uuid.uuid1()) File “/Users/pjh523/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/uuid.py”, line 606, in uuid1 clock_seq_hi_variant, clock_seq_low, node), version=1) File “/Users/pjh523/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/uuid.py”, line 168, in init raise ValueError(‘field 6 out of range (need a 48-bit value)’) ValueError: field 6 out of range (need a 48-bit value)

Version and main components

• Spyder Version: 3.2.6
• Python Version: 3.6.3
• Qt Versions: 5.6.2, PyQt5 5.6 on Darwin

Dependencies

pyflakes >=0.6.0 :  1.6.0 (OK)
pycodestyle >=2.3:  2.3.1 (OK)
pygments >=2.0   :  2.2.0 (OK)
pandas >=0.13.1  :  0.21.0 (OK)
numpy >=1.7      :  1.13.3 (OK)
sphinx >=0.6.6   :  1.6.6 (OK)
rope >=0.9.4     :  0.10.7 (OK)
jedi >=0.9.0     :  0.11.1 (OK)
psutil >=0.3     :  5.4.3 (OK)
nbconvert >=4.0  :  5.3.1 (OK)
sympy >=0.7.3    :  1.1.1 (OK)
cython >=0.21    :  0.27.3 (OK)
qtconsole >=4.2.0:  4.3.1 (OK)
IPython >=4.0    :  6.2.1 (OK)
pylint >=0.25    :  1.8.1 (OK)

[harripj]

Solved:

Problem with uuid. It looks like MacOS has been describing FireWire ports with 64-bit hardware addresses from 10.13.3 which has been crashing uuid.

Solution here: https://bugs.python.org/issue32502

[CAM-Gerlach]

I apologize for being a complete beginner, but how do I actually use the information in that link to solve the problem with SPYDER?

The problem is, as stated, not with Spyder, but rather an interaction between Python and the OS (High Sierra) that we have no control over. The fix suggested in the thread was manually patching the problem uuid() function to handle the longer address without raising an exception; otherwise, you can wait a couple weeks for Python 3.6.5 to be released which will include the fix.