Internal Problem
Author: Boris-MolinaCreated Sep 17, 2026Updated Sep 17, 2026
Description
What steps will reproduce the problem?
I just start Spyder on its own mamba environment. No error noticed on startup but this window keeps popping up.
Traceback
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\molin\miniforge3\envs\spyder\Lib\site-packages\spyder\plugins\\\updatemanager\workers.py", line 407, in start
self.channel, url = get_spyder_conda_channel()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\molin\miniforge3\envs\spyder\Lib\site-packages\spyder\\\utils\conda.py", line 239, in get_spyder_conda_channel
if package_info["name"] == 'spyder':
~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^
TypeError: string indices must be integers, not 'str'Versions
- Spyder version: 6.1.7 (conda)
- Python version: 3.11.16 64-bit
- Qt version: 5.15.15
- PyQt5 version: 5.15.11
- Operating System: Windows-10-10.0.19045-SP0
Dependencies
# Mandatory:
aiohttp >=3.11.2 : 3.14.3 (OK)
asyncssh >=2.14.0,<3.0.0 : 2.24.0 (OK)
bcrypt >=4.3.0 : 5.0.0 (OK)
chardet >=5.2.0,<8.0.0 : 7.6.0 (OK)
cloudpickle >=0.5.0 : 3.1.2 (OK)
cookiecutter >=1.6.0 : 2.7.1 (OK)
diff_match_patch >=20181111 : 20241021 (OK)
github >=2.3.0 : 2.10.0 (OK)
importlib_metadata >=4.6.0 : 9.0.1 (OK)
intervaltree >=3.0.2 : 3.1.0 (OK)
IPython >=8.15.0,<10.0.0,!=8.17.1,!=9.1.0,!=9.2.0,!=9.3.0,!=9.4.0 : 9.17.1 (OK)
ipython_pygments_lexers >=1.0 : 1.1.1 (OK)
jedi >=0.17.2,<0.21.0 : 0.20.0 (OK)
jellyfish >=0.7 : 1.2.1 (OK)
jsonschema >=3.2.0 : 4.26.0 (OK)
keyring >=17.0.0 : 25.7.0 (OK)
markdown_it >=3.0.0 : 4.2.0 (OK)
nbconvert >=4.0 : 7.17.1 (OK)
numpydoc >=0.6.0 : 1.10.0 (OK)
packaging >=20.0 : 26.3 (OK)
parso >=0.7.0,<0.9.0 : 0.8.7 (OK)
pexpect >=4.4.0 : 4.9.0 (OK)
pickleshare >=0.4 : 0.7.5 (OK)
psutil >=5.3 : 7.2.2 (OK)
pygments >=2.0 : 2.21.0 (OK)
pylint >=3.1,<5 : 4.0.8 (OK)
pylint_venv >=3.0.2 : 3.0.4 (OK)
pyls_spyder >=0.4.0 : 0.4.0 (OK)
pylsp >=1.15.0,<1.16.0 : 1.15.0 (OK)
pylsp_black >=2.0.0,<3.0.0 : 2.0.0 (OK)
pylsp_ruff >=2.3.0,<3.0.0 : 2.3.4 (OK)
pyuca >=1.2 : 1.2 (OK)
qdarkstyle >=3.2.0,<3.3.0 : 3.2.3 (OK)
qstylizer >=0.2.2 : 0.2.4 (OK)
qtawesome >=1.4.1,<1.5.0 : 1.4.2 (OK)
qtconsole >=5.7.2,<5.8.0 : 5.7.2 (OK)
qtpy >=2.4.0 : 2.4.3 (OK)
rtree >=0.9.7 : 1.4.1 (OK)
sphinx >=7.2.0 : 9.0.4 (OK)
spyder_kernels >=3.1.6,<3.2.0 : 3.1.6 (OK)
superqt >=0.6.2,<1.0.0 : 0.8.2 (OK)
textdistance >=4.2.0 : 4.6.2 (OK)
three_merge >=0.1.1 : 0.1.1 (OK)
watchdog >=0.10.3 : 6.0.0 (OK)
yarl >=1.9.4 : 1.24.5 (OK)
zmq >=24.0.0 : 27.2.0 (OK)
# Optional:
cython >=0.21 : None (NOK)
matplotlib >=3.0.0 : 3.11.2 (OK)
numpy >=1.7 : 2.4.6 (OK)
pandas >=1.1.1 : 3.0.5 (OK)
scipy >=0.17.0 : 1.17.1 (OK)
sympy >=0.7.3 : None (NOK)Source: spyder-ide/spyder