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DrBwts
DrBwts

Reputation: 3657

Spyder not launching in environment

I have an evironment set up for QCoDeS

But when I try & install Spyder using conda install, it keeps freezing up even after updating conda. I've tried installing through Navigator but it complains about the Python version (3.10) & doesn't install.

I found a suggestion that installing Spyder with pip install spyder should do the job (yes I know conflicts but I'm running out of options)

Spyder installs and shows up in the list of installed packages but isn't recognized when I enter spyder at the conda command line (W10 x64).

What's going on here? I'm at a loss, should I downgrade the Python version in my environment (how do?)? Is that going to mess with QcoDeS the reason for the envirornment in the first place?

EDIT:: Solution, as mentioned below there are no python 3.10 builds for Spyder so, I deleted the environment & recreated using conda create -n qcodes python=3.9. Spyder now installs & runs in the environment & qcodes happily runs with python 3.9.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1081

Answers (1)

merv
merv

Reputation: 77098

Nothing yet provides Python 3.10 builds for Spyder, however, Conda Forge does offer spyder-kernels builds for 3.10. This would entail creating a separate environment dedicated to hosting only the Spyder infrastructure, and then installing spyder-kernels in the environments you wish to use in Spyder.

That is, something like

## install spyder-kernels in the env of interest
conda install -n myenv -c conda-forge spyder-kernels

## create dedicated env for spyder
conda create -n spyder spyder

## always launch spyder from that env
conda activate spyder
spyder

## switch kernels from GUI

Then follow Spyder documentation to switch to the kernel of interest.

Upvotes: 2

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