Spyder IDE gets stuck

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K_Fine | 2020-05-07 14:27:17 UTC | #1

Hi, I am using the Spyder IDE on Linux, and the console gets stuck right away. Clicking the "x" does not stop the window.

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I managed to get around this problem using this site: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57408620/cant-kill-pyqt-window-after-closing-it-which-requires-me-to-restart-the-kernal

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Spyder IDE gets stuck was written by Martin Fitzpatrick .

Martin Fitzpatrick has been developing Python/Qt apps for 8 years. Building desktop applications to make data-analysis tools more user-friendly, Python was the obvious choice. Starting with Tk, later moving to wxWidgets and finally adopting PyQt.

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