Merge from 3.x: PR #5128

Fixes #4851 Fixes spyder-ide/spyder-notebook#114
spyder-ide · Sep 4, 2017 · 061ca3c · 061ca3c
2 parents 7509a86 + e84c126
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diff --git a/spyder/otherplugins.py b/spyder/otherplugins.py
@@ -54,10 +54,16 @@ def _get_spyderplugins(plugin_path, is_io, modnames, modlist):
         # Is this a Spyder plugin?
         if not name.startswith(PLUGIN_PREFIX):
             continue
+
         # Ensure right type of plugin
         if is_io != name.startswith(IO_PREFIX):
             continue
 
+        # Skip names that end in certain suffixes
+        forbidden_suffixes = ['dist-info', 'egg.info', 'egg-link']
+        if any([name.endswith(s) for s in forbidden_suffixes]):
+            continue
+
         # Import the plugin
         _import_plugin(name, plugin_path, modnames, modlist)