Startup Error and Software Reset

[Alex Nagle]

Hi there,

I have recently been trying to integrate PsychoPy with Spyder, and have been following online instructions to set up an environment, using an environment file, through which these two programs can interact. 

The type of code I've been using is:

conda env create -n psychopy -f psychopy-env.yml

conda activate psychopy

Or:

conda create -n psychopyenv python=3.8

conda install -n psychopyenv pip spyder psychopy

conda activate psychopyenv

But after all this I still can't get Spyder to recognise the PsychoPy module. Also, when I now open Spyder, an 'Issue reporter' window opens, saying that an internal problem has been encountered, but I'm not sure what the problem is. Spyder has also seemed to 'reset', removing all my altered keyboard shortcuts for example, and offering me the interactive tour as if I've just installed Spyder for the first time. This is occurring even after I've removed the two environments (in the code above) from the Anaconda Navigator. 

Please can someone tell me what's going on? Have I messed around with environments too much? 

Thanks very much,

Alex