AttributeError when executing in a dedicated console and the interpreter was set to an environment without spyder-kernels installed/correct version installed

[s-pearce]

Description

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Install Anaconda
2. create conda environment with spyder (created from yaml file)
3. open base environment spyder
4. configure python interpreter in preferences to use the not-base environment's python
5. Create a simple matplotlib plotting test
6. From the run menu select "Configuration per file" and then choose "Execute in a dedicated console"
7. The new console tab says an error occurred while starting the kernel and suggests I install spyder-kernels >=2.4 and < 2.5.0

Traceback

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Stuart\anaconda3\Lib\site-packages\spyder\plugins\ipythonconsole\plugin.py", line 648, in run_script
    self.get_widget().run_script(
  File "C:\Users\Stuart\anaconda3\Lib\site-packages\spyder\plugins\ipythonconsole\widgets\main_widget.py", line 2335, in run_script
    client = self.create_client_for_file(
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\Stuart\anaconda3\Lib\site-packages\spyder\plugins\ipythonconsole\widgets\main_widget.py", line 1825, in create_client_for_file
    client.allow_rename = False
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'allow_rename'

Versions

• Spyder version: 5.4.3 (conda)
• Python version: 3.11.7 64-bit
• Qt version: 5.15.2
• PyQt5 version: 5.15.10
• Operating System: Windows 10

Dependencies

# Mandatory:
atomicwrites >=1.2.0                             :  1.4.0 (OK)
chardet >=2.0.0                                  :  4.0.0 (OK)
cloudpickle >=0.5.0                              :  2.2.1 (OK)
cookiecutter >=1.6.0                             :  2.5.0 (OK)
diff_match_patch >=20181111                      :  20200713 (OK)
intervaltree >=3.0.2                             :  3.1.0 (OK)
IPython >=7.31.1,<9.0.0,!=8.8.0,!=8.9.0,!=8.10.0 :  8.20.0 (OK)
jedi >=0.17.2,<0.19.0                            :  0.18.1 (OK)
jellyfish >=0.7                                  :  1.0.1 (OK)
jsonschema >=3.2.0                               :  4.19.2 (OK)
keyring >=17.0.0                                 :  23.13.1 (OK)
nbconvert >=4.0                                  :  7.10.0 (OK)
numpydoc >=0.6.0                                 :  1.5.0 (OK)
paramiko >=2.4.0                                 :  2.8.1 (OK)
parso >=0.7.0,<0.9.0                             :  0.8.3 (OK)
pexpect >=4.4.0                                  :  4.8.0 (OK)
pickleshare >=0.4                                :  0.7.5 (OK)
psutil >=5.3                                     :  5.9.0 (OK)
pygments >=2.0                                   :  2.15.1 (OK)
pylint >=2.5.0,<3.0                              :  2.16.2 (OK)
pylint_venv >=2.1.1                              :  2.3.0 (OK)
pyls_spyder >=0.4.0                              :  0.4.0 (OK)
pylsp >=1.7.2,<1.8.0                             :  1.7.2 (OK)
pylsp_black >=1.2.0                              :  1.2.1 (OK)
qdarkstyle >=3.0.2,<3.2.0                        :  3.0.2 (OK)
qstylizer >=0.2.2                                :  0.2.2 (OK)
qtawesome >=1.2.1                                :  1.2.2 (OK)
qtconsole >=5.4.2,<5.5.0                         :  5.4.2 (OK)
qtpy >=2.1.0                                     :  2.4.1 (OK)
rtree >=0.9.7                                    :  1.0.1 (OK)
setuptools >=49.6.0                              :  68.2.2 (OK)
sphinx >=0.6.6                                   :  5.0.2 (OK)
spyder_kernels >=2.4.3,<2.5.0                    :  2.4.4 (OK)
textdistance >=4.2.0                             :  4.2.1 (OK)
three_merge >=0.1.1                              :  0.1.1 (OK)
watchdog >=0.10.3                                :  2.1.6 (OK)
zmq >=22.1.0                                     :  25.1.2 (OK)

# Optional:
cython >=0.21                                    :  None (NOK)
matplotlib >=3.0.0                               :  3.8.0 (OK)
numpy >=1.7                                      :  1.26.4 (OK)
pandas >=1.1.1                                   :  2.1.4 (OK)
scipy >=0.17.0                                   :  1.11.4 (OK)
sympy >=0.7.3                                    :  1.12 (OK)

Environment

Environment

# packages in environment at C:\Users\Stuart\anaconda3\envs\dev:
#
# Name                    Version                   Build  Channel
alabaster                 0.7.12             pyhd3eb1b0_0  
arrow                     1.2.3           py312haa95532_1  
astroid                   2.14.2          py312haa95532_0  
asttokens                 2.4.1              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
atomicwrites              1.4.0                      py_0  
attrs                     23.1.0          py312haa95532_0  
autopep8                  2.0.4              pyhd3eb1b0_0  
babel                     2.11.0          py312haa95532_0  
bcrypt                    3.2.0           py312h2bbff1b_1  
beautifulsoup4            4.12.2          py312haa95532_0  
binaryornot               0.4.4              pyhd3eb1b0_1  
black                     23.11.0         py312haa95532_0  
bleach                    4.1.0              pyhd3eb1b0_0  
blosc                     1.21.5               hdccc3a2_0    conda-forge
brotli                    1.1.0                hcfcfb64_1    conda-forge
brotli-bin                1.1.0                hcfcfb64_1    conda-forge
brotli-python             1.1.0           py312h53d5487_1    conda-forge
bzip2                     1.0.8                hcfcfb64_5    conda-forge
ca-certificates           2024.2.2             h56e8100_0    conda-forge
cached-property           1.5.2                hd8ed1ab_1    conda-forge
cached_property           1.5.2              pyha770c72_1    conda-forge
certifi                   2024.2.2        py312haa95532_0  
cffi                      1.16.0          py312h2bbff1b_0  
cftime                    1.6.3           py312ha90f08f_0    conda-forge
chardet                   4.0.0           py312haa95532_1003  
charset-normalizer        3.3.2              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
click                     8.1.7           py312haa95532_0  
cloudpickle               2.2.1           py312haa95532_0  
cmocean                   3.1.3              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
colorama                  0.4.6              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
colorspacious             1.1.2              pyh24bf2e0_0    conda-forge
comm                      0.2.1           py312haa95532_0  
contourpy                 1.2.0           py312h0d7def4_0    conda-forge
cookiecutter              1.7.3              pyhd3eb1b0_0  
cryptography              41.0.7          py312h89fc84f_0  
cycler                    0.12.1             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
debugpy                   1.6.7           py312hd77b12b_0  
decorator                 5.1.1              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
defusedxml                0.7.1              pyhd3eb1b0_0  
diff-match-patch          20200713           pyhd3eb1b0_0  
dill                      0.3.7           py312haa95532_0  
docstring-to-markdown     0.11            py312haa95532_0  
docutils                  0.18.1          py312haa95532_3  
et_xmlfile                1.1.0              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
exceptiongroup            1.2.0              pyhd8ed1ab_2    conda-forge
executing                 2.0.1              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
flake8                    7.0.0           py312haa95532_0  
fonttools                 4.49.0          py312he70551f_0    conda-forge
freetype                  2.12.1               hdaf720e_2    conda-forge
gettext                   0.21.1               h5728263_0    conda-forge
glib                      2.80.0               h39d0aa6_0    conda-forge
glib-tools                2.80.0               h0a98069_0    conda-forge
gst-plugins-base          1.22.9               h001b923_0    conda-forge
gstreamer                 1.22.9               hb4038d2_0    conda-forge
gsw                       3.6.17          py312ha90f08f_1    conda-forge
h5py                      3.10.0          nompi_py312h1751c5b_101    conda-forge
hdf4                      4.2.15               h5557f11_7    conda-forge
hdf5                      1.14.3          nompi_h73e8ff5_100    conda-forge
icu                       73.2                 h63175ca_0    conda-forge
idna                      3.6                pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
imagesize                 1.4.1           py312haa95532_0  
importlib-metadata        7.0.1           py312haa95532_0  
inflection                0.5.1           py312haa95532_1  
intel-openmp              2024.0.0         h57928b3_49841    conda-forge
intervaltree              3.1.0              pyhd3eb1b0_0  
ipykernel                 6.28.0          py312haa95532_0  
ipython                   8.22.2             pyh7428d3b_0    conda-forge
isort                     5.9.3              pyhd3eb1b0_0  
jaraco.classes            3.2.1              pyhd3eb1b0_0  
jedi                      0.19.1             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
jellyfish                 1.0.1           py312h36a85e1_0  
jinja2                    3.1.3           py312haa95532_0  
jinja2-time               0.2.0              pyhd3eb1b0_3  
jsonschema                4.19.2          py312haa95532_0  
jsonschema-specifications 2023.7.1        py312haa95532_0  
jupyter_client            8.6.0           py312haa95532_0  
jupyter_core              5.5.0           py312haa95532_0  
jupyterlab_pygments       0.2.2           py312haa95532_0  
keyring                   24.3.1          py312haa95532_0  
kiwisolver                1.4.5           py312h0d7def4_1    conda-forge
krb5                      1.21.2               heb0366b_0    conda-forge
lazy-object-proxy         1.6.0           py312h2bbff1b_0  
lcms2                     2.16                 h67d730c_0    conda-forge
lerc                      4.0.0                h63175ca_0    conda-forge
libaec                    1.1.2                h63175ca_1    conda-forge
libblas                   3.9.0              21_win64_mkl    conda-forge
libbrotlicommon           1.1.0                hcfcfb64_1    conda-forge
libbrotlidec              1.1.0                hcfcfb64_1    conda-forge
libbrotlienc              1.1.0                hcfcfb64_1    conda-forge
libcblas                  3.9.0              21_win64_mkl    conda-forge
libclang                  15.0.7          default_hde6756a_4    conda-forge
libclang13                15.0.7          default_h85b4d89_4    conda-forge
libcurl                   8.5.0                hd5e4a3a_0    conda-forge
libdeflate                1.19                 hcfcfb64_0    conda-forge
libexpat                  2.6.1                h63175ca_0    conda-forge
libffi                    3.4.2                h8ffe710_5    conda-forge
libglib                   2.80.0               h39d0aa6_0    conda-forge
libhwloc                  2.9.3           default_haede6df_1009    conda-forge
libiconv                  1.17                 hcfcfb64_2    conda-forge
libjpeg-turbo             3.0.0                hcfcfb64_1    conda-forge
liblapack                 3.9.0              21_win64_mkl    conda-forge
libnetcdf                 4.9.2           nompi_h07c049d_113    conda-forge
libogg                    1.3.4                h8ffe710_1    conda-forge
libpng                    1.6.43               h19919ed_0    conda-forge
libsodium                 1.0.18               h62dcd97_0  
libspatialindex           1.9.3                h6c2663c_0  
libsqlite                 3.45.2               hcfcfb64_0    conda-forge
libssh2                   1.11.0               h7dfc565_0    conda-forge
libtiff                   4.6.0                h6e2ebb7_2    conda-forge
libvorbis                 1.3.7                h0e60522_0    conda-forge
libwebp-base              1.3.2                hcfcfb64_0    conda-forge
libxcb                    1.15                 hcd874cb_0    conda-forge
libxml2                   2.12.5               hc3477c8_0    conda-forge
libzip                    1.10.1               h1d365fa_3    conda-forge
libzlib                   1.2.13               hcfcfb64_5    conda-forge
lz4-c                     1.9.4                hcfcfb64_0    conda-forge
m2w64-gcc-libgfortran     5.3.0                         6    conda-forge
m2w64-gcc-libs            5.3.0                         7    conda-forge
m2w64-gcc-libs-core       5.3.0                         7    conda-forge
m2w64-gmp                 6.1.0                         2    conda-forge
m2w64-libwinpthread-git   5.0.0.4634.697f757               2    conda-forge
markupsafe                2.1.3           py312h2bbff1b_0  
matplotlib                3.8.3           py312h2e8e312_0    conda-forge
matplotlib-base           3.8.3           py312h26ecaf7_0    conda-forge
matplotlib-inline         0.1.6              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
mccabe                    0.7.0              pyhd3eb1b0_0  
mistune                   2.0.4           py312haa95532_0  
mkl                       2024.0.0         h66d3029_49657    conda-forge
more-itertools            10.1.0          py312haa95532_0  
msys2-conda-epoch         20160418                      1    conda-forge
munkres                   1.1.4              pyh9f0ad1d_0    conda-forge
mypy_extensions           1.0.0           py312haa95532_0  
nbclient                  0.8.0           py312haa95532_0  
nbconvert                 7.10.0          py312haa95532_0  
nbformat                  5.9.2           py312haa95532_0  
nest-asyncio              1.6.0           py312haa95532_0  
netcdf4                   1.6.5           nompi_py312he4da9c3_100    conda-forge
numpy                     1.26.4          py312h8753938_0    conda-forge
numpydoc                  1.5.0           py312haa95532_0  
openjpeg                  2.5.2                h3d672ee_0    conda-forge
openpyxl                  3.1.2           py312he70551f_1    conda-forge
openssl                   3.2.1                hcfcfb64_0    conda-forge
packaging                 24.0               pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
pandas                    2.2.1           py312h2ab9e98_0    conda-forge
pandocfilters             1.5.0              pyhd3eb1b0_0  
paramiko                  2.8.1              pyhd3eb1b0_0  
parso                     0.8.3              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
pathspec                  0.10.3          py312haa95532_0  
pcre2                     10.43                h17e33f8_0    conda-forge
pexpect                   4.8.0              pyhd3eb1b0_3  
pickleshare               0.7.5                   py_1003    conda-forge
pillow                    10.2.0          py312he768995_0    conda-forge
pip                       24.0               pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
platformdirs              3.10.0          py312haa95532_0  
pluggy                    1.0.0           py312haa95532_1  
ply                       3.11                       py_1    conda-forge
poyo                      0.5.0              pyhd3eb1b0_0  
prompt-toolkit            3.0.42             pyha770c72_0    conda-forge
psutil                    5.9.0           py312h2bbff1b_0  
pthread-stubs             0.4               hcd874cb_1001    conda-forge
pthreads-win32            2.9.1                hfa6e2cd_3    conda-forge
ptyprocess                0.7.0              pyhd3eb1b0_2  
pure_eval                 0.2.2              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
pycodestyle               2.11.1          py312haa95532_0  
pycparser                 2.21               pyhd3eb1b0_0  
pydocstyle                6.3.0           py312haa95532_0  
pyflakes                  3.2.0           py312haa95532_0  
pygments                  2.17.2             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
pylint                    2.16.2          py312haa95532_0  
pylint-venv               3.0.3           py312haa95532_0  
pyls-spyder               0.4.0              pyhd3eb1b0_0  
pynacl                    1.5.0           py312h8cc25b3_0  
pyparsing                 3.1.2              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
pyqt                      5.15.9          py312he09f080_5    conda-forge
pyqt5-sip                 12.12.2         py312h53d5487_5    conda-forge
pyqtwebengine             5.15.9          py312hca0710b_5    conda-forge
pyserial                  3.5                pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
pysocks                   1.7.1              pyh0701188_6    conda-forge
python                    3.12.2          h2628c8c_0_cpython    conda-forge
python-dateutil           2.9.0              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
python-fastjsonschema     2.16.2          py312haa95532_0  
python-lsp-black          2.0.0           py312haa95532_0  
python-lsp-jsonrpc        1.1.2              pyhd3eb1b0_0  
python-lsp-server         1.10.0          py312haa95532_0  
python-slugify            5.0.2              pyhd3eb1b0_0  
python-tzdata             2024.1             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
python_abi                3.12                    4_cp312    conda-forge
pytoolconfig              1.2.6           py312haa95532_0  
pytz                      2024.1             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
pywin32                   305             py312h2bbff1b_0  
pywin32-ctypes            0.2.2           py312haa95532_0  
pyyaml                    6.0.1           py312he70551f_1    conda-forge
pyzmq                     25.1.2          py312hd77b12b_0  
qdarkstyle                3.2.3              pyhd3eb1b0_0  
qstylizer                 0.2.2           py312haa95532_0  
qt-main                   5.15.8              h9e85ed6_19    conda-forge
qt-webengine              5.15.9               h5bd16bc_7  
qtawesome                 1.2.2           py312haa95532_0  
qtconsole                 5.5.1           py312haa95532_0  
qtpy                      2.4.1           py312haa95532_0  
referencing               0.30.2          py312haa95532_0  
requests                  2.31.0             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
rope                      1.12.0          py312haa95532_0  
rpds-py                   0.10.6          py312h062c2fa_0  
rtree                     1.0.1           py312h2eaa2aa_0  
scipy                     1.12.0          py312h8753938_2    conda-forge
setuptools                69.1.1             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
sip                       6.7.12          py312h53d5487_0    conda-forge
six                       1.16.0             pyh6c4a22f_0    conda-forge
snappy                    1.1.10               hfb803bf_0    conda-forge
snowballstemmer           2.2.0              pyhd3eb1b0_0  
sortedcontainers          2.4.0              pyhd3eb1b0_0  
soupsieve                 2.5             py312haa95532_0  
sphinx                    5.0.2           py312haa95532_0  
sphinxcontrib-applehelp   1.0.2              pyhd3eb1b0_0  
sphinxcontrib-devhelp     1.0.2              pyhd3eb1b0_0  
sphinxcontrib-htmlhelp    2.0.0              pyhd3eb1b0_0  
sphinxcontrib-jsmath      1.0.1              pyhd3eb1b0_0  
sphinxcontrib-qthelp      1.0.3              pyhd3eb1b0_0  
sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml 1.1.5              pyhd3eb1b0_0  
spyder                    5.5.1           py312h2e8e312_0    conda-forge
spyder-kernels            2.5.0           py312haa95532_0  
stack_data                0.6.2              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
tbb                       2021.11.0            h91493d7_1    conda-forge
text-unidecode            1.3                pyhd3eb1b0_0  
textdistance              4.2.1              pyhd3eb1b0_0  
three-merge               0.1.1              pyhd3eb1b0_0  
tinycss2                  1.2.1           py312haa95532_0  
tk                        8.6.13               h5226925_1    conda-forge
toml                      0.10.2             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
tomli                     2.0.1              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
tomlkit                   0.11.1          py312haa95532_0  
tornado                   6.4             py312he70551f_0    conda-forge
traitlets                 5.14.2             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
typing_extensions         4.10.0             pyha770c72_0    conda-forge
tzdata                    2024a                h0c530f3_0    conda-forge
ucrt                      10.0.22621.0         h57928b3_0    conda-forge
ujson                     5.4.0           py312hd77b12b_0  
unidecode                 1.2.0              pyhd3eb1b0_0  
urllib3                   2.2.1              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
vc                        14.3                hcf57466_18    conda-forge
vc14_runtime              14.38.33130         h82b7239_18    conda-forge
vs2015_runtime            14.38.33130         hcb4865c_18    conda-forge
watchdog                  2.1.6           py312haa95532_0  
wcwidth                   0.2.13             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
webencodings              0.5.1           py312haa95532_2  
whatthepatch              1.0.2           py312haa95532_0  
wheel                     0.42.0             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
win_inet_pton             1.1.0              pyhd8ed1ab_6    conda-forge
wrapt                     1.14.1          py312h2bbff1b_0  
xarray                    2024.2.0           pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
xorg-libxau               1.0.11               hcd874cb_0    conda-forge
xorg-libxdmcp             1.1.3                hcd874cb_0    conda-forge
xz                        5.2.6                h8d14728_0    conda-forge
yaml                      0.2.5                h8ffe710_2    conda-forge
yapf                      0.40.2          py312haa95532_0  
zeromq                    4.3.5                hd77b12b_0  
zipp                      3.17.0          py312haa95532_0  
zlib                      1.2.13               hcfcfb64_5    conda-forge
zstd                      1.5.5                h12be248_0    conda-forge

[ccordoba12]

Hey @s-pearce, thanks for reporting. It seems the problem has to do with two things:

1. The environment you created from a yaml file doesn't have the right version of Spyder-kernels that's required for the Spyder you have in your base env.
2. We're not guarding against that when trying to create a dedicated console to run code, which is causing the bug you reported.

The solution for now is for you to install Spyder 5.4 in your non-base env. Unfortunately, Spyder and Spyder-kernels versions need to paired to work as expected (e.g. Spyder 5.4 with Spyder-kernels 2.4).

We'll fix this error with dedicated consoles in Spyder 6, to be released in a couple of months. But that won't avoid the need to have the right version of Spyder-kernels in other envs.

[s-pearce]

Thanks @ccordoba12, I agree that would be the better solution and that is kind of where my learning from yesterday led me. However, there also seems to be a bug within Conda/Anaconda on Windows where if I create a non-base environment with spyder and the correct spyder-kernels version, I get an error during boot up saying it does not have permission to copy the icon \font file under %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts\codicon.ttf.
This problem doesn't seem to occur with the base environment spyder install, so I have to assume the fault lies within conda or anaconda. Anyway, not ideal, but I just need to make my base environment work as my non-base environment should.

[ccordoba12]

there also seems to be a bug within Conda/Anaconda on Windows where if I create a non-base environment with spyder and the correct spyder-kernels version, I get an error during boot up saying it does not have permission to copy the icon \font file under %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts\codicon.ttf.

That's actually not a problem with Anaconda/conda but a bug in one of our libraries: spyder-ide/qtawesome#236. We'll try to fix it in its next version, to be released soon.