Thanks Carlos. I ended up just using the Anaconda distribution - it also had problems starting up, but it puts a nice little icon "Reset Spyder" in the start menu...did the trick!
The whole IPython vs Jupyter ect is very confusing...thanks for the link! On Wednesday, August 12, 2015 at 6:46:57 PM UTC-4, Carlos Córdoba wrote: > > Hi, > > If you installed Spyder *this morning*, you need to run > > pip install qtconsole > > to install the Jupyter (previously IPython) component that Spyder depends > on > > Just running > > pip install ipython > > installs now the terminal (i.e. cmd.exe) version of IPython. > > > You can read more about what happened to the IPython project (and the > transition to Jupyter) here: > > http://blog.jupyter.org/2015/04/15/the-big-split/ > > > Cheers, > Carlos > > El 12/08/15 a las 14:43, Michael Beyer escribió: > > Carlos: > > I am getting this error too. Here's the details: > > Running Python 2.7.10 - 32-bit on Windows 7 Professional > > I manually installed spyder by first installing the dependencies, as per > the install webpage. No issues with installing those. > > I then installed Spyder and clicked on the icon. It crashed as shown in > the previous poster's description. Here's the error from the crash log: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\spyderlib\spyder.py", line 2336, in > main > mainwindow = run_spyder(app, options, args) > File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\spyderlib\spyder.py", line 2220, in > run_spyder > main.setup() > File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\spyderlib\spyder.py", line 766, in > setup > from spyderlib.plugins.inspector import ObjectInspector > File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\spyderlib\plugins\inspector.py", > line 41, in <module> > from spyderlib.widgets.ipython import IPythonControlWidget > File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\spyderlib\widgets\ipython.py", line > 28, in <module> > pygments_patch.apply() > File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\spyderlib\pygments_patch.py", line > 27, in apply > from IPython.frontend.qt.console.pygments_highlighter import > RegexLexer > ImportError: No module named pygments_highlighter > > > I have successfully loaded Spyder before, but now that I'm using 32-bit, > it seems to be an issue. > > On Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 8:08:52 PM UTC-4, Carlos Córdoba wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> How did you install Spyder? What is the error that you're seeing? >> >> The error would be helpful to provide a better handling mechanism for >> Pygments. >> >> Cheers, >> Carlos >> >> El 18/03/15 a las 18:53, Mark Mikofski escribió: >> >> Spyder 2.3.3 >> IPython 3 >> >> without pygments, spyder causes python to crash on windows, >> hard for user to know what the issue is since there is no feedback, >> and crash windows have strong negative association. >> Spyder dialog says to use `spyder --reset`, >> but that doesn't work since it's not the issue >> >> please either >> * make pygments required during installation >> or >> * handle ImportError gracefully >> - fall back to python interpreter console >> - issue message >> >> Thanks! >> >> >> On Monday, October 15, 2012 at 7:29:08 AM UTC-7, anatoly techtonik wrote: >>> >>> Hi guys, >>> >>> I've noticed that Spyder now doesn't run without pygments. Is that >>> intentional? Can we make the dependency optional? >>> >>> http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/source/browse/README >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "spyder" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/spyderlib. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "spyder" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/spyderlib. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "spyder" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/spyderlib. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
