Problems with new venv on Anaconda. Spyder ask for spyder-kernels module but doesn't detect it

[Andrea Bragantini]

Hi all,

I am using Spyder within Anaconda, as many others of you do (I believe).

I started recently to work with different venvs on Anaconda for different project needs.

Unfortunately, changing the Python interpreter path on the Spyder preferences asks for the "spyder-kernels" module to be installed. Is this normal?

Even after having installed that module on the selected venv, still the Spyder kernel is not able to start. It seems that Spyder is not able to see the new installed package.

Is someone else experiencing the same issue? It is very annoying.

I would like to be able to use same Spyder installation in an easy way with different venvs, for different projects.

Thanks

Andrea Bragantini

PhD Student

[Carlos Córdoba]

Hi,

My answers are below

El 19/04/21 a las 2:57 p. m., Andrea Bragantini escribió:

Hi all,

I am using Spyder within Anaconda, as many others of you do (I believe).

I started recently to work with different venvs on Anaconda for different project needs.

Unfortunately, changing the Python interpreter path on the Spyder preferences asks for the "spyder-kernels" module to be installed. Is this normal?

Yes, that's normal.

Even after having installed that module on the selected venv, still the Spyder kernel is not able to start. It seems that Spyder is not able to see the new installed package.

Is someone else experiencing the same issue? It is very annoying.

What's the error you're seeing?

I would like to be able to use same Spyder installation in an easy way with different venvs, for different projects.

Please see our docs on how to achieve that:

http://docs.spyder-ide.org/current/faq.html#using-existing-environment

Thanks

Andrea Bragantini

PhD Student

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[Andrea Bragantini]

Dear Carlos,

Thanks for your answers.

Of course I was following the webpage you posted there.

It seems that when asking to install the spyder-kernels library, it downloads the wrong version, not compatible with the current python version in that environment.

Is this something unusual?
Even asking for the right version (displayed in spyder console, not the latest 2.0 but giving these constraints: >=1.9 and <1.10) it says it is not compatible with your python version.

Sometimes it works with other python interpreters, sometimes not. Very annoying. Cannot work like this.

I am really losing a lot of time in trying to make spyder working with these spyder-kernels.

I really would like to avoid that. 

Thanks for your help.

Andrea