Basic First Help¶

These suggestions, while more of a shotgun arroyo, tend to fix the majority of reported problems just on their own.

Reinstalling Spyder¶

If none of the previous steps solve your issue, yous should practice a total uninstall of Spyder by whatever ways you originally installed it.

For Anaconda, follow all the steps under Option B in the Anaconda uninstall guide, delete the Anaconda directory wherever it was originally installed, and (on Windows) remove the %appdata%/python directory if it exists.

Deleting appdata/python directory

Then, practice a make clean install of the latest version of the Anaconda distribution which is how we recommend you install Spyder and keep it upward to date.

Important

While you are welcome to get Spyder working on your own by ane of the many other means we offer, we are only able to provide individual back up for install-related issues for users of the Anaconda distribution. In particular, pip installation, while doable, is just really for experts, every bit in that location are many pitfalls involved and different issues specific to your setup, which is why we recommend using Conda whenever possible. For further information, please visit our Installation Guide.

Isolating problems¶

If you become an fault while running a specific line, cake, or script/program, it may non be an issue with Spyder, but rather something lower down in the packages it depends on. Effort running it in the following in guild if and until it starts working as you expect. If you manage to isolate the bug, report it to the last 1 it doesn't work in.

  1. Spyder itself, of course! Brand sure you tin can reproduce the error later on closing and reopening information technology, if possible.

  2. A bare QtConsole instance, e.m. launched from Anaconda navigator or from the Anaconda Prompt/Terminal/command line (Windows/Mac/Linux) with jupyter qtconsole .

    Anaconda navigator showing qtconsole

    QtConsole is the GUI console backend Spyder depends on to run its lawmaking, then most bug involving Spyder's :doc`ipythonconsole` are actually something with QtConsole instead, and can be reported to their event tracker.

  3. An IPython command line shell, launched with e.thou. ipython from the Anaconda Prompt/Terminal/command line (Windows/Mac/Linux). Reproducible bugs can exist reported to their Github page, though make sure to read their guidelines and docs showtime.

  4. A standard Python interpreter, either run as a script file with python path/to/your/file.py or launched interactively with python from your Anaconda Prompt/Terminal/control line (Windows/Mac/Linux). While it is not impossible that y'all've found Python bug, it is much more likely to be an result with the code itself or a packet you are using, so your all-time sources are the Python docs and the other resources listed to a higher place.

Tip

If the problem reoccurs in a similar or identical way with any of these methods (other than only Spyder itself), and so it is most certainly not an event with Spyder, and would be all-time handled elsewhere. As we ordinarily aren't able to do much about issues non related to Spyder, a forum like Stack Overflow or the relevant package's docs is a much better place to get assistance or study the issue.

See the Calling for Help section for other places to look for information and assistance.

Debugging and patching¶

If you know your manner around Python, you lot can often diagnose and even fix Spyder problems yourself, since the IDE is written in the same language you utilise in it. You can explore the mistake letters y'all're receiving and Spyder's inner workings with the Internal Panel, available under the menu particular .

Spyder showing Internal console

For more detailed debug output, start Spyder from the command line (Anaconda Prompt on Windows) with spyder --debug-info verbose .

Even if you lot don't manage to fix the problem yourself, this output can be very helpful in aiding us to quickly narrow downward and solve your issue for you.