Bug#732949: spyder: Internal console spamming

[Élie Gouzien]

Package: spyder
Version: 2.1.10-2
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

When there is an internal error in spyder, the error shows up and the cursor
move to it. De-selecting the internal console from the display menu changes
nothing.
If for developers it's good, it turns to be a plague for users: if there is a
recurrent error for any reason (even a "negligeable" error) you are disturbed
every time a message shows up and have to go back to the line you were editing
(which mean we have to take the mouse).

In my case I do have the following error:

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/spyderlib/widgets/editor.py", line 228,
in update_queue
    end_callback = self.end_callbacks.pop(id(thread))
KeyError: 67235920

and it shows up every 10 s. Working with spyder turns to be impossible with
it.

A (according to me) better behavior would be:
-When you do activate the internal console, errors show up like it is doing now
-When you do not activate the internal console, it never shows up.

Sincerely and with many thanks for spyder witch is just a fantastic tool,
Élie Gouzien



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.3
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages spyder depends on:
ii  python            2.7.3-4+deb7u1
ii  python-spyderlib  2.1.10-2

spyder recommends no packages.

spyder suggests no packages.

Versions of packages python-spyderlib depends on:
ii  libjs-sphinxdoc  1.1.3+dfsg-4
ii  python           2.7.3-4+deb7u1
ii  python-qt4       4.9.3-4

Versions of packages python-spyderlib recommends:
ii  ipython            0.13.1-2
ii  pep8               1.2-1
ii  pyflakes           0.5.0-2
ii  pylint             0.25.1-1
ii  python-matplotlib  1.1.1~rc2-1
ii  python-numpy       1:1.6.2-1.2
ii  python-rope        0.9.2-1
ii  python-scipy       0.10.1+dfsg2-1
ii  python-sphinx      1.1.3+dfsg-4

Versions of packages python-qt4 depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.13-38
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.7.2-5
ii  libpython2.7              2.7.3-6
ii  libqt4-dbus               4:4.8.2+dfsg-11
ii  libqt4-declarative        4:4.8.2+dfsg-11
ii  libqt4-designer           4:4.8.2+dfsg-11
ii  libqt4-help               4:4.8.2+dfsg-11
ii  libqt4-network            4:4.8.2+dfsg-11
ii  libqt4-script             4:4.8.2+dfsg-11
ii  libqt4-scripttools        4:4.8.2+dfsg-11
ii  libqt4-svg                4:4.8.2+dfsg-11
ii  libqt4-test               4:4.8.2+dfsg-11
ii  libqt4-xml                4:4.8.2+dfsg-11
ii  libqt4-xmlpatterns        4:4.8.2+dfsg-11
ii  libqtassistantclient4     4.6.3-4
ii  libqtcore4                4:4.8.2+dfsg-11
ii  libqtgui4                 4:4.8.2+dfsg-11
ii  libqtwebkit4              2.2.1-5
ii  libstdc++6                4.7.2-5
ii  python                    2.7.3-4+deb7u1
ii  python-sip [sip-api-8.1]  4.13.3-2

Versions of packages python-qt4 suggests:
pn  python-qt4-dbg  <none>

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