Hello everybody!
I have this really frustrating problem with Spyder (I'm using Windows) that I can't seem to solve by any means: in short, when I click on the Spyder application (or try to run it in any other way, namely the Anaconda prompt, Win + R, etc.), it doesn't launch (the arrow displays the blue loading circle for a brief moment but then nothing happens).
Here's a list of things I have tried (some of them I found on the internet posted by people with the same problem); obviously, none of these worked and the problem still persists:
- restarting my laptop / checking for updates,
- trying to update Anaconda, Spyder and Jupyter,
- resetting Spyder and trying the following command for issues with pyqt5: conda install qt=5.6* pyqt=5.6* sip=4.18*,
- uninstalling Spyder and re-installing it,
- deleting the spyder.lock file in the .spyder2 folder,
- uninstalling Anaconda altogether (and manually deleting all related folders that remain after the automatic process) and installing it again.
One detail that may be important is that Anaconda Prompt and Jupyter seem to work fine (as I mentioned I was able to check for updates and execute other commands in Anaconda Prompt), whereas Spyder and the Anaconda Navigator (which should open a web page to the users' manual of Anaconda) won't open when I try to run them. Also, all of this happened only because I tried to install the pytest library since I couldn't find it anymore in Spyder; before opening it today, everything worked (including pytest to run tests directly in Spyder).
Of course, I believe you know why getting my Spyder to work again would be crucial, especially since I have to work on a few homework recoveries.
Any help would be much appreciated, since I spent all of today trying to fix this.
Thanks and happy holidays!
I have this really frustrating problem with Spyder (I'm using Windows) that I can't seem to solve by any means: in short, when I click on the Spyder application (or try to run it in any other way, namely the Anaconda prompt, Win + R, etc.), it doesn't launch (the arrow displays the blue loading circle for a brief moment but then nothing happens).
Here's a list of things I have tried (some of them I found on the internet posted by people with the same problem); obviously, none of these worked and the problem still persists:
- restarting my laptop / checking for updates,
- trying to update Anaconda, Spyder and Jupyter,
- resetting Spyder and trying the following command for issues with pyqt5: conda install qt=5.6* pyqt=5.6* sip=4.18*,
- uninstalling Spyder and re-installing it,
- deleting the spyder.lock file in the .spyder2 folder,
- uninstalling Anaconda altogether (and manually deleting all related folders that remain after the automatic process) and installing it again.
One detail that may be important is that Anaconda Prompt and Jupyter seem to work fine (as I mentioned I was able to check for updates and execute other commands in Anaconda Prompt), whereas Spyder and the Anaconda Navigator (which should open a web page to the users' manual of Anaconda) won't open when I try to run them. Also, all of this happened only because I tried to install the pytest library since I couldn't find it anymore in Spyder; before opening it today, everything worked (including pytest to run tests directly in Spyder).
Of course, I believe you know why getting my Spyder to work again would be crucial, especially since I have to work on a few homework recoveries.
Any help would be much appreciated, since I spent all of today trying to fix this.
Thanks and happy holidays!