I was having the same problems and followed the advice on this thread with no success. I use anaconda to manage my python packages and realized that I had pip installed spyder instead of thru anaconda. when I pip uninstalled then conda installed spyder, the issue was resolved.
On Tuesday, May 19, 2015 at 10:50:45 PM UTC-4, dprice wrote: > > I've been trying to solve this problem for weeks, to no avail. Please note > I am a technical person, but hardware, not software. > > Here's the issue. I had the old Spyder 1.7.0/pyt2.7 working for years on > my laptop, Win 7, 32-bit. I recently uninstalled it and reinstalled Spyder > 2.3.4-pyt2.7. > > When: > > I launch spyder from: > > 1. The Spyder Windows icon > 2. From the windows command prompt > 3. From the Anaconda command prompt > 4. From the python command line > 5. From the windows command prompt with defaults (spyder --defaults) > > It always results in a crash, followed by "python.exe has stopped working" > (or sometimes "pythonw.exe has stopped working"). This usually happens when > the splash screen says "loading file explorer" > > What I have tried that does not fix the problem: > > 1. Uninstalling and reinstalling > 2. Resetting spyder (spyder --reset) > 3. deleting the .spyder2 directory > 4. changing the spyder config file, to disable the explorer. This results > in the crash happening when the splash screen says "loading namespace...." > > The only information I receive from windows is the an applications crash, > and the offending application is python27.dll. > > I'm out of ideas and need help. I am willing to do the work and send > whatever info required to solve this problem, but I need a guru to lead the > way. > > Thanks > > > > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/spyderlib. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
