Anaconda Spyder doesn't launch

Question

I'm trying to open Spyder and I have deleted multiple times the "spyder.lock" folder in user/directory but it doesn't work. This is the error:

  File "C:\Users\pc-acer\anaconda3\envs\EnvTest\Scripts\spyder-script.py", line 10, in <module>


 sys.exit(main())
  File "C:\Users\pc-acer\Anaconda3\Lib\site-packages\spyder\app\start.py", line 212, in main
    mainwindow.main(options, args)
  File "C:\Users\pc-acer\Anaconda3\Lib\site-packages\spyder\app\mainwindow.py", line 3685, in main
    mainwindow = run_spyder(app, options, args)
  File "C:\Users\pc-acer\Anaconda3\Lib\site-packages\spyder\app\mainwindow.py", line 3571, in run_spyder
    main.setup()
  File "C:\Users\pc-acer\Anaconda3\Lib\site-packages\spyder\app\mainwindow.py", line 886, in setup
    from spyder.plugins.completion.plugin import CompletionManager
  File "C:\Users\pc-acer\Anaconda3\Lib\site-packages\spyder\plugins\completion\plugin.py", line 22, in <module>
    from spyder.plugins.completion.languageserver.plugin import (
  File "C:\Users\pc-acer\Anaconda3\Lib\site-packages\spyder\plugins\completion\languageserver\plugin.py", line 31, in <module>
    from spyder.plugins.completion.languageserver.confpage import (
  File "C:\Users\pc-acer\Anaconda3\Lib\site-packages\spyder\plugins\completion\languageserver\confpage.py", line 31, in <module>
    from spyder.plugins.completion.languageserver.widgets.snippetsconfig import (
  File "C:\Users\pc-acer\Anaconda3\Lib\site-packages\spyder\plugins\completion\languageserver\widgets\snippetsconfig.py", line 17, in <module>
    from jsonschema import validate as json_validate
  File "C:\Users\pc-acer\Anaconda3\Lib\site-packages\jsonschema\__init__.py", line 34, in <module>
    __version__ = metadata.version("jsonschema")
  File "C:\Users\pc-acer\anaconda3\envs\EnvTest\lib\importlib\metadata.py", line 531, in version
    return distribution(distribution_name).version
  File "C:\Users\pc-acer\anaconda3\envs\EnvTest\lib\importlib\metadata.py", line 236, in version
    return self.metadata['Version']
  File "C:\Users\pc-acer\anaconda3\envs\EnvTest\lib\importlib\metadata.py", line 224, in metadata
    self.read_text('METADATA')
  File "C:\Users\pc-acer\anaconda3\envs\EnvTest\lib\importlib\metadata.py", line 491, in read_text
    return self._path.joinpath(filename).read_text(encoding='utf-8')
AttributeError: 'WindowsPath' object has no attribute 'read_text'

I don't know what i have to do. Please help!

Answer 1

There might be 2 situation

1. You are using older version of python or something messed up so try reinstalling newer version of python

2. conda missing some dependencies.

   conda upgrade spyder

Check this thread.