Bug#732949: spyder: Internal console spamming

[Ghislain Vaillant]

On Mon, 23 Dec 2013 00:27:56 +0100 =?utf-8?q?=C3=89lie_Gouzien?= <gouzien at mit.edu> wrote:
> Package: spyder
> Version: 2.1.10-2
> Severity: important

This version is now significantly outdated. Could you please verify
whether the issue is still happening on one of the recent versions
being packaged (3.1.2 at the time of writing).

 
> 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 10Â 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.

I cannot reproduce this on the new version.

Ghis