spyder_terminal - Problem when opening Preferences with local build on FreeBSD 13, Python 3.11

[spchamp]

Description

What steps will reproduce the problem?

I'm not certain how much of the following, if any of the following, may be related. Reviewing the backtrace in the details section, I'll try to take a look at the source code.

To install this Spyder IDE instance, I'd used the following general workflow. This is with a Spyder IDE installation via pip, on a FreeBSD 13.2 desktop, amd64 architecture, Python 3.11. Maybe any of the following could have produced any side effects that may have lead to the error.

• Built and installed PyQt5 using sip-wheel with PyQt5 5.15.7 sources, for a Python 3.11 locally built with FreeBSD ports
• Created a virtual environment for this Python 3.11, installing the non-ports PyQt5 wheel and dependencies there
• Installed the latest spyder pip packages in this virtual environment, also spyder-terminal. This entailed building some components under pip during the install, for instance PyQtWebEngine with sip tools, also pyzmq with its build process
• Launched Spyder using the env/bin/spyder script from the virtual environment, Python 3.11.
• Tried to open the preferences window in Spyder, then this Issue reporter appeared

I believe that I may have figured out the intial workflow for this installation. I'll try to reproduce this with a separate virtual environment for Python 3.10 on this machine

Traceback

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/home/gimbal/wk/python_wk/spyder_sandbox/env/lib/python3.11/site-packages/spyder/plugins/preferences/plugin.py", line 276, in <lambda>
    lambda: self.open_dialog(main.prefs_dialog_size))
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/home/gimbal/wk/python_wk/spyder_sandbox/env/lib/python3.11/site-packages/spyder/plugins/preferences/plugin.py", line 256, in open_dialog
    container.create_dialog(
  File "/usr/home/gimbal/wk/python_wk/spyder_sandbox/env/lib/python3.11/site-packages/spyder/plugins/preferences/widgets/container.py", line 58, in create_dialog
    page.initialize()
  File "/usr/home/gimbal/wk/python_wk/spyder_sandbox/env/lib/python3.11/site-packages/spyder/plugins/preferences/api.py", line 86, in initialize
    self.setup_page()
  File "/usr/home/gimbal/wk/python_wk/spyder_sandbox/env/lib/python3.11/site-packages/spyder_terminal/confpage.py", line 55, in setup_page
    if mac_ver >= LooseVersion('10.15.0'):
       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/home/gimbal/wk/python_wk/spyder_sandbox/env/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/version.py", line 90, in __ge__
    c = self._cmp(other)
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/home/gimbal/wk/python_wk/spyder_sandbox/env/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/version.py", line 350, in _cmp
    if self.version == other.version:
       ^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'LooseVersion' object has no attribute 'version'

Versions

• Spyder version: 5.4.2 (pip)
• Python version: 3.11.2 64-bit
• Qt version: 5.15.8
• PyQt5 version: 5.15.7
• Operating System: FreeBSD 13.2-STABLE

Dependencies

# Mandatory:
atomicwrites >=1.2.0                 :  1.4.1 (OK)
chardet >=2.0.0                      :  5.1.0 (OK)
cloudpickle >=0.5.0                  :  2.2.1 (OK)
cookiecutter >=1.6.0                 :  2.1.1 (OK)
diff_match_patch >=20181111          :  20200713 (OK)
intervaltree >=3.0.2                 :  3.1.0 (OK)
IPython >=7.31.1;<9.0.0              :  8.11.0 (OK)
jedi >=0.17.2;<0.19.0                :  0.18.2 (OK)
jellyfish >=0.7                      :  0.9.0 (OK)
jsonschema >=3.2.0                   :  4.17.3 (OK)
keyring >=17.0.0                     :  23.13.1 (OK)
nbconvert >=4.0                      :  7.2.9 (OK)
numpydoc >=0.6.0                     :  1.5.0 (OK)
parso >=0.7.0;<0.9.0                 :  0.8.3 (OK)
pexpect >=4.4.0                      :  4.8.0 (OK)
pickleshare >=0.4                    :  0.7.5 (OK)
psutil >=5.3                         :  5.9.4 (OK)
pygments >=2.0                       :  2.14.0 (OK)
pylint >=2.5.0;<3.0                  :  2.17.0 (OK)
pylint_venv >=2.1.1                  :  3.0.1 (OK)
pyls_spyder >=0.4.0                  :  0.4.0 (OK)
pylsp >=1.7.1;<1.8.0                 :  1.7.1 (OK)
pylsp_black >=1.2.0                  :  1.2.1 (OK)
qdarkstyle >=3.0.2;<3.1.0            :  3.0.3 (OK)
qstylizer >=0.2.2                    :  0.2.2 (OK)
qtawesome >=1.2.1                    :  1.2.3 (OK)
qtconsole >=5.4.0;<5.5.0             :  5.4.0 (OK)
qtpy >=2.1.0                         :  2.3.0 (OK)
rtree >=0.9.7                        :  1.0.1 (OK)
setuptools >=49.6.0                  :  65.6.3 (OK)
sphinx >=0.6.6                       :  6.1.3 (OK)
spyder_kernels >=2.4.2;<2.5.0        :  2.4.2 (OK)
textdistance >=4.2.0                 :  4.5.0 (OK)
three_merge >=0.1.1                  :  0.1.1 (OK)
watchdog >=0.10.3                    :  2.3.1 (OK)
zmq >=22.1.0                         :  25.0.0 (OK)

# Optional:
cython >=0.21                        :  None (NOK)
matplotlib >=3.0.0                   :  None (NOK)
numpy >=1.7                          :  None (NOK)
pandas >=1.1.1                       :  None (NOK)
scipy >=0.17.0                       :  None (NOK)
sympy >=0.7.3                        :  None (NOK)

# Spyder plugins:
spyder_terminal.terminalplugin 1.2.2 :  1.2.2 (OK)

Environment

Environment

Package                       Version   Editable project location
----------------------------- --------- ------------------------------------------------
alabaster                     0.7.13
arrow                         1.2.3
astroid                       2.15.0
asttokens                     2.2.1
atomicwrites                  1.4.1
attrs                         22.2.0
autopep8                      1.6.0
Babel                         2.12.1
backcall                      0.2.0
beautifulsoup4                4.11.2
binaryornot                   0.4.4
black                         23.1.0
bleach                        6.0.0
boto3                         1.26.88
botocore                      1.29.88
build                         0.10.0
certifi                       2022.12.7
chardet                       5.1.0
charset-normalizer            3.1.0
click                         8.1.3
cloudpickle                   2.2.1
coloredlogs                   15.0.1
comm                          0.1.2
cookiecutter                  2.1.1
debugpy                       1.6.6
decorator                     5.1.1
defusedxml                    0.7.1
diff-match-patch              20200713
dill                          0.3.6
distlib                       0.3.6
docstring-to-markdown         0.11
docutils                      0.19
entrypoints                   0.4
executing                     1.2.0
fastjsonschema                2.16.3
filelock                      3.9.0
flake8                        6.0.0
humanfriendly                 10.0
idna                          3.4
imagesize                     1.4.1
importlib-metadata            6.0.0
inflection                    0.5.1
intervaltree                  3.1.0
ipykernel                     6.21.3
ipython                       8.11.0
ipython-genutils              0.2.0
isort                         5.12.0
jaraco.classes                3.2.3
jedi                          0.18.2
jellyfish                     0.9.0
Jinja2                        3.1.2
jinja2-time                   0.2.0
jmespath                      1.0.1
jsonschema                    4.17.3
jupyter_client                7.4.9
jupyter_core                  5.2.0
jupyterlab-pygments           0.2.2
keyring                       23.13.1
lazy-object-proxy             1.9.0
MarkupSafe                    2.1.2
matplotlib-inline             0.1.6
mccabe                        0.7.0
mistune                       2.0.5
more-itertools                9.1.0
mypy-extensions               1.0.0
nbclient                      0.7.2
nbconvert                     7.2.9
nbformat                      5.7.3
nest-asyncio                  1.5.6
numpydoc                      1.5.0
packaging                     23.0
pandocfilters                 1.5.0
parso                         0.8.3
pathspec                      0.11.0
Paver                         1.3.4
pexpect                       4.8.0
pickleshare                   0.7.5
pip                           23.0.1
pip-tools                     6.12.3
piprepo                       0.1.3
platformdirs                  3.1.0
pluggy                        1.0.0
ply                           3.11
prompt-toolkit                3.0.38
psutil                        5.9.4
ptyprocess                    0.7.0
pure-eval                     0.2.2
pycodestyle                   2.10.0
pydocstyle                    6.2.3
pyflakes                      3.0.1
Pygments                      2.14.0
pylaborate-spydy-qt5          1.0.0     /usr/home/gimbal/wk/python_wk/spyder_sandbox/src
pylint                        2.17.0
pylint-venv                   3.0.1
pyls-spyder                   0.4.0
pyproject_hooks               1.0.0
PyQt-builder                  1.14.1
PyQt5                         5.15.7
PyQt5-sip                     12.11.1
PyQtWebEngine                 5.15.6
pyrsistent                    0.19.3
python-dateutil               2.8.2
python-lsp-black              1.2.1
python-lsp-jsonrpc            1.0.0
python-lsp-server             1.7.1
python-slugify                8.0.1
pytoolconfig                  1.2.5
PyYAML                        6.0
pyzmq                         25.0.0
QDarkStyle                    3.0.3
qstylizer                     0.2.2
QtAwesome                     1.2.3
qtconsole                     5.4.0
QtPy                          2.3.0
requests                      2.28.2
rope                          1.7.0
Rtree                         1.0.1
s3transfer                    0.6.0
setuptools                    65.6.3
sip                           6.7.7
six                           1.16.0
snowballstemmer               2.2.0
sortedcontainers              2.4.0
soupsieve                     2.4
Sphinx                        6.1.3
sphinxcontrib-applehelp       1.0.4
sphinxcontrib-devhelp         1.0.2
sphinxcontrib-htmlhelp        2.0.1
sphinxcontrib-jsmath          1.0.1
sphinxcontrib-qthelp          1.0.3
sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml 1.1.5
spyder                        5.4.2
spyder-kernels                2.4.2
spyder-terminal               1.2.2
sqlite3                       0.0.0
stack-data                    0.6.2
terminado                     0.17.1
text-unidecode                1.3
textdistance                  4.5.0
three-merge                   0.1.1
tinycss2                      1.2.1
Tkinter                       0.0.0
toml                          0.10.2
tomlkit                       0.11.6
tornado                       6.2
traitlets                     5.9.0
ujson                         5.7.0
urllib3                       1.26.14
virtualenv                    20.20.0
watchdog                      2.3.1
wcwidth                       0.2.6
webencodings                  0.5.1
whatthepatch                  1.0.4
wheel                         0.38.4
wrapt                         1.15.0
wurlitzer                     3.0.3
yapf                          0.32.0
zipp                          3.15.0

[spchamp]

I've encountered this also with Python 3.10 on this platform. A similar backtrace, after activating the Tools / Preferences menu item:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/home/gimbal/wk/python_wk/spyder_sandbox/env3.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages/spyder/plugins/preferences/plugin.py", line 276, in <lambda>
    lambda: self.open_dialog(main.prefs_dialog_size))
  File "/usr/home/gimbal/wk/python_wk/spyder_sandbox/env3.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages/spyder/plugins/preferences/plugin.py", line 256, in open_dialog
    container.create_dialog(
  File "/usr/home/gimbal/wk/python_wk/spyder_sandbox/env3.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages/spyder/plugins/preferences/widgets/container.py", line 58, in create_dialog
    page.initialize()
  File "/usr/home/gimbal/wk/python_wk/spyder_sandbox/env3.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages/spyder/plugins/preferences/api.py", line 86, in initialize
    self.setup_page()
  File "/usr/home/gimbal/wk/python_wk/spyder_sandbox/env3.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages/spyder_terminal/confpage.py", line 55, in setup_page
    if mac_ver >= LooseVersion('10.15.0'):
  File "/usr/home/gimbal/wk/python_wk/spyder_sandbox/env3.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/version.py", line 90, in __ge__
    c = self._cmp(other)
  File "/usr/home/gimbal/wk/python_wk/spyder_sandbox/env3.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/version.py", line 349, in _cmp
    if self.version == other.version:
AttributeError: 'LooseVersion' object has no attribute 'version'

The Issue reporter window appears then.

This does not seem to otherwise affect the usability of the Syder IDE installation here. It's still usable, after closing the Issue reporter.

At the line listing a source file in spyder_terminal, it seems that it's checking a mac_ver string with this installation on FreeBSD. Perhaps the system may have resembled Darwin somehow.

[spchamp]

In spyder_terminal, it seems that the default shell setting might not have covered BSD systems yet. Maybe sh will do?

[ccordoba12]

Hey @spchamp, thanks for reporting. This bug belongs to Spyder-terminal, so I'm moving it there.

In the future, please open related bugs there instead of here.