Spyder Debugger hangs (not debugging)

Question

I updated to the latest version of Spyder (5.1.5) and my debugger hangs w/o response on the first line, no matter the code.

Here are the dependency versions:

• Spyder 5.1.5
• spyder-kernel 2.1.1
• Python 3.9.7
• IPython 7.31.1

I remember having this problem a while ago that was fixed by updating the Spyder Kernel, but no dice this time through.

Any solutions?

Answer 1

You need to update your Spyder version because this is a known issue fixed in any Spyder version greater than 5.1.5.

If you are not using Anaconda, you can update Spyder with the following command

pip install -U spyder

If you are using Anaconda, please close Spyder, open the Anaconda Prompt (on Windows) or a terminal (on Linux or Mac) and run there

conda create -n spyder-env -c conda-forge spyder
conda activate spyder-env
spyder