Great!
worked for me as well
just to remove spyder.ini from C:\Users\[your user 
name]\.spyder2\.spyder.ini 
;)

On Monday, December 9, 2013 5:36:14 AM UTC+3:30, Stewart Chang wrote:
>
> Thanks, Pierre! This worked for me, even more than 2 years since your 
> original posting. I was getting a similar error, 
> "ConfigParser.ParsingError: File contains parsing errors: 
> C:\Users\...\.spyder2\.spyder.ini [line 44]: 'completion/font/'". When I 
> went back and looked at the spyder.ini file, I saw that line 44 was the 
> last line of the file without a "=" or anything completing it. I'm guessing 
> that I probably killed a Python process that was running Spyder before it 
> had a chance to finish writing the .ini file? Anyway, I deleted spyder.ini 
> then restarted Spyder, and everything seemed to be fine.
>
> Thanks!
> Stewart
>
>
> On Tuesday, July 26, 2011 2:12:26 AM UTC-7, Pierre Raybaut wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Could you post the contents of the lines 429-431 of your .spyder.ini
>> file? (apparently, line 430 is triggering the error)
>>
>> By the way, judging by the symptoms, I guess that simply removing the
>> .ini should be sufficient to fix your problem. But it happened once,
>> so it could happen again and I honestly have no idea of what caused
>> this corruption of your configuration file. So, if you can reproduce
>> this problem, it would be great to be able to describe precisely the
>> steps that lead you to this situation.
>>
>> Regarding Python(x,y), I don't think it's related as the .ini file is
>> not modified in any way by Python(x,y).
>>
>> Cheers
>> Pierre
>>
>> Le 21 juil. 2011 à 06:54, Jason Sale <[email protected]> a écrit :
>>
>> > And with the debug command it's the same (I think):
>> >
>> > C:\Users\uqaschwa>spyder --debug
>> > Traceback (most recent call last):
>> >  File "C:\Python26\Scripts\spyder", line 2, in <module>
>> >    from spyderlib import spyder
>> >  File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\spyderlib\spyder.py", line 49,
>> > in <module>
>> >
>> >    from spyderlib.utils.environ import WinUserEnvDialog
>> >  File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\spyderlib\utils\environ.py",
>> > line 16, in <
>> > module>
>> >    from spyderlib.config import _
>> >  File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\spyderlib\config.py", line 317,
>> > in <module
>> >>
>> >    subfolder=_subfolder, backup=True, raw_mode=True)
>> >  File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\spyderlib\userconfig.py", line
>> > 99, in __in
>> > it__
>> >    self.load_from_ini()
>> >  File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\spyderlib\userconfig.py", line
>> > 131, in loa
>> > d_from_ini
>> >    self.read(self.filename())
>> >  File "C:\Python26\lib\ConfigParser.py", line 286, in read
>> >    self._read(fp, filename)
>> >  File "C:\Python26\lib\ConfigParser.py", line 510, in _read
>> >    raise e
>> > ConfigParser.ParsingError: File contains parsing errors: C:\Users
>> > \uqaschwa\.spyd
>> > er2\.spyder.ini
>> >        [line 430]: "ace', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Consolas', 'Courier
>> > New', 'Bitst
>> > ream Vera Sans Mono', 'Andale Mono', 'Liberation Mono', 'Monaco',
>> > 'Courier', 'mo
>> > nospace', 'Fixed', 'Terminal']\n"
>> >
>> > On Jul 21, 2:53 pm, Jason Sale <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> Here's what happens when I type "spyder" in the command line:
>> >>
>> >> Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
>> >> Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
>> >>
>> >> C:\Users\uqaschwa>spyder
>> >> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> >>   File "C:\Python26\Scripts\spyder", line 2, in <module>
>> >>     from spyderlib import spyder
>> >>   File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\spyderlib\spyder.py", line 49,
>> >> in <module>
>> >>
>> >>     from spyderlib.utils.environ import WinUserEnvDialog
>> >>   File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\spyderlib\utils\environ.py",
>> >> line 16, in <
>> >> module>
>> >>     from spyderlib.config import _
>> >>   File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\spyderlib\config.py", line 317,
>> >> in <module
>> >>
>> >>     subfolder=_subfolder, backup=True, raw_mode=True)
>> >>   File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\spyderlib\userconfig.py", line
>> >> 99, in __in
>> >> it__
>> >>     self.load_from_ini()
>> >>   File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\spyderlib\userconfig.py", line
>> >> 131, in loa
>> >> d_from_ini
>> >>     self.read(self.filename())
>> >>   File "C:\Python26\lib\ConfigParser.py", line 286, in read
>> >>     self._read(fp, filename)
>> >>   File "C:\Python26\lib\ConfigParser.py", line 510, in _read
>> >>     raise e
>> >> ConfigParser.ParsingError: File contains parsing errors: C:\Users
>> >> \uqaschwa\.spyd
>> >> er2\.spyder.ini
>> >>         [line 430]: "ace', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Consolas', 'Courier
>> >> New', 'Bitst
>> >> ream Vera Sans Mono', 'Andale Mono', 'Liberation Mono', 'Monaco',
>> >> 'Courier', 'mo
>> >> nospace', 'Fixed', 'Terminal']\n"
>> >>
>> >> C:\Users\uqaschwa>
>> >>
>> >> On Jul 18, 5:41 pm, David Verelst <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>> Hi,
>> >>
>> >>> First, I am not a WIndows 7 user, so I might so some silly things 
>> here...
>> >>
>> >>> What happens if you launch spyder from the command line (command 
>> prompt, I
>> >>> think you can find it some where in the folder accessories)? If it 
>> fails to
>> >>> launch, there should be a traceback to the error. Maybe you can post 
>> that
>> >>> one? Also try to the start spyder in the debug mode from the command 
>> line:
>> >>> spyder --debug
>> >>> Have you tried switching hyper threading back on?
>> >>
>> >>> Regards,
>> >>> David
>> >>
>> >>> On 18 July 2011 06:43, Jason Sale <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>>> Hi everyone,
>> >>>> I don't know if this is the right place, but I just installed Python
>> >>>> XY on my windows 7 64-bit PC, and when I click on the button to 
>> launch
>> >>>> Spyder nothing happens. I tried running spyder directly (from the
>> >>>> start menu) but again, nothing. It doesn't even come up in the task
>> >>>> manager...
>> >>
>> >>>> This started happening a few minutes ago. It used to work fine until 
>> I
>> >>>> switched hyperthreading off, restarted, launched python (it worked 
>> the
>> >>>> first time, so I doubt this is related but it might be worth
>> >>>> mentioning...) and then closed it again. Then it stopped working. No
>> >>>> errors, nothing. I tried restarting and totally uninstalling/
>> >>>> installing Python XY again.
>> >>
>> >>>> Is this a known bug?
>> >>
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