spyder crashes if ipython installed but not pygments

[mikofski]

Spyder 2.3.3
IPython 3

without pygments, spyder causes python to crash on windows,
hard for user to know what the issue is since there is no feedback,
and crash windows have strong negative association.
Spyder dialog says to use spyder --reset,
but that doesn't work since it's not the issue

please either

• make pygments required during installation
  or
• handle ImportError gracefully
  • fall back to python interpreter console
  • issue message

Thanks!

[ccordoba12]

Thanks for reporting @mikofski!!

Please post the traceback you're seeing so we can understand how to fix it

[ccordoba12]

I'm almost sure this an IPython error rather than a Spyder one, but we can fix it in our own code.

[mikofski]

I'm sure it is IPython too, but it will turn away users from Spyder. The exception is ImportError: No module named Pygments

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<xxx>", line X, in <module: xxx>
ImportError: No module named Pygments

I was setting up python for a new engineer, and I forgot to install Pygments when setting up Python, and we started getting weird crashes everytime we started Spyder. it was frustrating because we had just run it before installing IPython, and I wanted to demo how spyder uses IPython console if installed. The error message from windows is not very useful. The impression some people get is that spyder is buggy unfortunately.

[mikofski]

Thanks carlos you're a coding god ; -)
now if we can just get the win_post_install script to run from pip on windows, spyder will be the defacto ide for engineers! BTW I think my snippets probably require pywin32, can't remember