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I had a massive crash today and lost a lot of work. I couldn't start Spyder after many attempts; even tried 'spyder --reset'. Nothing worked. I decided to download a new version of Anaconda and start over. Now, I'm trying to figure out why I can't run packages.

If I run this: import pyodbc

I get this: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pyodbc'

So, I go to the command prompt to pip install pyodbc...and apparently it's already installed...

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When I navigate to that path, I can see the package

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...but Spyder is still telling me it's not installed. What's an easy fix for this?

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i had similar crash problems on Windows 10, what I learned is that I had several non-conda versions of python on my PC, and I used 'pip install' in my environments so it messed up with conda packages and it stop working.

What I did is that I uninstalled anaconda and non-conda python, cleaned up registry from python mentions, installed fresh new miniconda, and 'conda install spyder' in the new env, conda have created new folder

C:\Users\~~~\.spyder-py3\

Inside of it I found "spyder.ini" file, where incorrect variable was set:

"spyder_pythonpath = "

I changed it from

['C:\Users\~~~\anaconda3\pkgs', 'C:\Users\~~~\anaconda3\envs']

to

['C:\Users\~~~\miniconda3\pkgs', 'C:\Users\~~~\miniconda3\envs']

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Please Upvote it take so much time First open Spyder and click Tools --> Open command prompt.

You should see the Command Window appear in the bottom right of your screen.

Here we install the Python package seaborn as an example.

# In the command line, type pip install seaborn C:\Users\your_username\Documents\Python Scripts>pip install seaborn

This will install seaborn on your machine.

Note:

To upgrade the pip version on Windows, type python -m pip install --upgrade pip on the command line.

On Windows, all of your Python packages can be found in the directory of C:\Anaconda2\Lib\site-packages if you use the default path when you install Anaconda. To upgrade the pip version on OS X, type pip install --upgrade pip on the command line.

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