I have a problem similar to this post. When trying to start Spyder from terminal or Anaconda navigator, I get the error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/myuser/anaconda3/bin/spyder", line 7, in <module>
from spyder.app.start import main
File "/home/myuser/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/spyder/app/start.py", line 35, in <module>
from spyder.config.manager import CONF
File "/home/myuser/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/spyder/config/manager.py", line 351, in <module>
CONF = ConfigurationManager()
File "/home/myuser/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/spyder/config/manager.py", line 64, in __init__
self._user_config = MultiUserConfig(
File "/home/myuser/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/spyder/config/user.py", line 782, in __init__
self._configs_map[name] = config_class(**new_kwargs)
File "/home/myuser/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/spyder/config/user.py", line 212, in __init__
self._load_from_ini(previous_fpath)
File "/home/myuser/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/spyder/config/user.py", line 333, in _load_from_ini
self.read(fpath, encoding='utf-8')
File "/home/myuser/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/configparser.py", line 697, in read
self._read(fp, filename)
File "/home/myuser/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/configparser.py", line 1017, in _read
for lineno, line in enumerate(fp, start=1):
File "/home/myuser/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/codecs.py", line 322, in decode
(result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xae in position 0: invalid start byte
The proposed solution doesn't work for me, as I struggle to find the right file to replace encoding='utf-8' with encoding='latin-1'
. The file userconfig.py
is not present in my anaconda installation folder. Looking with
grep -rn 'self.read(self.filename(), encoding='
results in the path
pkgs/anaconda-navigator-1.9.12-py38_0/lib/python3.8/site-packages/anaconda_navigator/config/user.py:279
.
But changing that line accordingly doesn't make any difference.
The same problem occurs if I try to run
spyder --reset
My setup: Ubuntu 18.04, Python 3.8.3, Spyder 4.1.4, Qt: 5.9.7, PyQt: 5.9.2
What I tried so far:
- reinstalled anaconda
- reinstalled python (2.7, 3.6, 3.8.3)
- tried with various versions of spyder (3.2.3 - 4.1.4)
- checked if charmap is set to 'utf-8' (it is)
- installed Spyder with miniconda (same result)
- made sure my username doesn't contain any non-ascii characters
I managed to make Spyder start when using an environment with python 2.7 and Spyder versions below 4.0, but i need the newer versions of both python and Spyder for my projects.
I am really stuck here and appreciate any of your advice!