Cannot import module/plugin with Spyder standalone installer

[JacksonPhoong]

Description

What steps will reproduce the problem?

I recently just installed Spyder using the standalone installer. I want to say thank you and great job to the developers who are working hard on this project. Spyder is a great IDE to use.

My issue is that I cannot import the module "utility" in Spyder. I used pip to install the module into my virtual environment and have restarted Spyder. I did not run into this issue when I installed other modules such as cvxpy and pennylane.

Also, I would love to work with notebooks in Spyder. I have installed spyder-notebook plugin but Spyder is not detecting it. I read in a blog that this was an issue with Spyder 5 but plugins should work with Spyder 6. Any help with this is appreciated.

Versions

• Spyder version: 6.0.2 (standalone)
• Python version: 3.11.10 64-bit
• Qt version: 5.15.8
• PyQt5 version: 5.15.9
• Operating System: Windows-10-10.0.19045-SP0

Dependencies

# Mandatory:
aiohttp >=3.9.3                  :  3.10.10 (OK)
asyncssh >=2.14.0,<3.0.0         :  2.18.0 (OK)
atomicwrites >=1.2.0             :  1.4.1 (OK)
chardet >=2.0.0                  :  5.2.0 (OK)
cloudpickle >=0.5.0              :  3.1.0 (OK)
cookiecutter >=1.6.0             :  2.6.0 (OK)
diff_match_patch >=20181111      :  20241021 (OK)
github >=2.3.0                   :  2.4.0 (OK)
importlib_metadata >=4.6.0       :  8.5.0 (OK)
intervaltree >=3.0.2             :  3.1.0 (OK)
IPython >=8.13.0,<9.0.0,!=8.17.1 :  8.29.0 (OK)
jedi >=0.17.2,<0.20.0            :  0.19.1 (OK)
jellyfish >=0.7                  :  1.1.0 (OK)
jsonschema >=3.2.0               :  4.23.0 (OK)
keyring >=17.0.0                 :  25.5.0 (OK)
nbconvert >=4.0                  :  7.16.4 (OK)
numpydoc >=0.6.0                 :  1.8.0 (OK)
parso >=0.7.0,<0.9.0             :  0.8.4 (OK)
pexpect >=4.4.0                  :  4.9.0 (OK)
pickleshare >=0.4                :  0.7.5 (OK)
psutil >=5.3                     :  6.1.0 (OK)
pygments >=2.0                   :  2.18.0 (OK)
pylint >=3.1,<4                  :  3.3.1 (OK)
pylint_venv >=3.0.2              :  3.0.4 (OK)
pyls_spyder >=0.4.0              :  0.4.0 (OK)
pylsp >=1.12.0,<1.13.0           :  1.12.0 (OK)
pylsp_black >=2.0.0,<3.0.0       :  2.0.0 (OK)
pyuca >=1.2                      :  1.2 (OK)
qdarkstyle >=3.2.0,<3.3.0        :  3.2.3 (OK)
qstylizer >=0.2.2                :  0.2.3 (OK)
qtawesome >=1.3.1,<1.4.0         :  1.3.1 (OK)
qtconsole >=5.6.1,<5.7.0         :  5.6.1 (OK)
qtpy >=2.4.0                     :  2.4.1 (OK)
rtree >=0.9.7                    :  1.3.0 (OK)
setuptools >=49.6.0              :  75.3.0 (OK)
sphinx >=0.6.6                   :  8.1.3 (OK)
spyder_kernels >=3.0.1,<3.1.0    :  3.0.1 (OK)
superqt >=0.6.2,<1.0.0           :  0.6.7 (OK)
textdistance >=4.2.0             :  4.6.2 (OK)
three_merge >=0.1.1              :  0.1.1 (OK)
watchdog >=0.10.3                :  5.0.3 (OK)
yarl >=1.9.4                     :  1.16.0 (OK)
zmq >=24.0.0                     :  26.2.0 (OK)

# Optional:
cython >=0.21                    :  3.0.11 (OK)
matplotlib >=3.0.0               :  3.9.2 (OK)
numpy >=1.7                      :  2.1.2 (OK)
pandas >=1.1.1                   :  2.2.3 (OK)
scipy >=0.17.0                   :  1.14.1 (OK)
sympy >=0.7.3                    :  1.13.3 (OK)

Environment

Environment

Package                       Version
----------------------------- --------------
aiohappyeyeballs              2.4.3
aiohttp                       3.11.7
aiosignal                     1.3.1
alabaster                     1.0.0
anyio                         4.6.2.post1
appdirs                       1.4.4
argon2-cffi                   23.1.0
argon2-cffi-bindings          21.2.0
arrow                         1.3.0
astroid                       3.3.5
asttokens                     2.4.1
async-lru                     2.0.4
asyncssh                      2.18.0
atomicwrites                  1.4.1
attrs                         24.2.0
autograd                      1.7.0
autopep8                      2.0.4
autoray                       0.7.0
babel                         2.16.0
beautifulsoup4                4.12.3
binaryornot                   0.4.4
black                         24.10.0
bleach                        6.2.0
cachetools                    5.5.0
certifi                       2024.8.30
cffi                          1.17.1
chardet                       5.2.0
charset-normalizer            3.4.0
clarabel                      0.9.0
click                         8.1.7
cloudpickle                   3.1.0
colorama                      0.4.6
comm                          0.2.2
contourpy                     1.3.0
cookiecutter                  2.6.0
cryptography                  43.0.3
cvxpy                         1.6.0
cycler                        0.12.1
Cython                        3.0.11
debugpy                       1.8.7
decorator                     5.1.1
defusedxml                    0.7.1
Deprecated                    1.2.15
diff-match-patch              20241021
dill                          0.3.9
docstring-to-markdown         0.15
docutils                      0.21.2
executing                     2.1.0
fastjsonschema                2.20.0
flake8                        7.1.1
fonttools                     4.54.1
fqdn                          1.5.1
frozenlist                    1.5.0
h11                           0.14.0
httpcore                      1.0.7
httpx                         0.27.2
idna                          3.10
imagesize                     1.4.1
importlib_metadata            8.5.0
inflection                    0.5.1
intervaltree                  3.1.0
ipykernel                     6.29.5
ipython                       8.29.0
isoduration                   20.11.0
isort                         5.13.2
jaraco.classes                3.4.0
jaraco.context                6.0.1
jaraco.functools              4.1.0
jedi                          0.19.1
jellyfish                     1.1.0
Jinja2                        3.1.4
json5                         0.9.28
jsonpointer                   3.0.0
jsonschema                    4.23.0
jsonschema-specifications     2024.10.1
jupyter_client                8.6.3
jupyter_core                  5.7.2
jupyter-events                0.10.0
jupyter-lsp                   2.2.5
jupyter_server                2.14.2
jupyter_server_terminals      0.5.3
jupyterlab                    4.2.6
jupyterlab_pygments           0.3.0
jupyterlab_server             2.27.3
keyring                       25.5.0
kiwisolver                    1.4.7
markdown-it-py                3.0.0
MarkupSafe                    3.0.2
matplotlib                    3.9.2
matplotlib-inline             0.1.7
mccabe                        0.7.0
mdurl                         0.1.2
mistune                       3.0.2
more-itertools                10.5.0
mpmath                        1.3.0
multidict                     6.1.0
mypy-extensions               1.0.0
nbclient                      0.10.0
nbconvert                     7.16.4
nbformat                      5.10.4
nest-asyncio                  1.6.0
networkx                      3.4.2
notebook                      7.2.2
notebook_shim                 0.2.4
numpy                         1.26.4
numpydoc                      1.8.0
osqp                          0.6.7.post3
overrides                     7.7.0
packaging                     24.1
pandas                        2.2.3
pandocfilters                 1.5.1
parso                         0.8.4
pathspec                      0.12.1
PennyLane                     0.38.0
PennyLane_Lightning           0.38.0
pexpect                       4.9.0
pickleshare                   0.7.5
pillow                        11.0.0
pip                           24.3.1
platformdirs                  4.3.6
pluggy                        1.5.0
prometheus_client             0.21.0
prompt_toolkit                3.0.48
propcache                     0.2.0
psutil                        6.1.0
ptyprocess                    0.7.0
pure_eval                     0.2.3
pycodestyle                   2.12.1
pycparser                     2.22
pydocstyle                    6.3.0
pyflakes                      3.2.0
PyGithub                      2.5.0
Pygments                      2.18.0
PyJWT                         2.10.0
pylint                        3.3.1
pylint-venv                   3.0.4
pyls-spyder                   0.4.0
PyNaCl                        1.5.0
pyparsing                     3.2.0
PyQt5                         5.15.11
PyQt5-Qt5                     5.15.2
PyQt5_sip                     12.15.0
PyQtWebEngine                 5.15.7
PyQtWebEngine-Qt5             5.15.2
python-dateutil               2.9.0.post0
python-json-logger            2.0.7
python-lsp-black              2.0.0
python-lsp-jsonrpc            1.1.2
python-lsp-server             1.12.0
python-slugify                8.0.4
pytoolconfig                  1.3.1
pytz                          2024.2
pyuca                         1.2
pywin32                       308
pywin32-ctypes                0.2.3
pywinpty                      2.0.14
PyYAML                        6.0.2
pyzmq                         26.2.0
QDarkStyle                    3.2.3
qdldl                         0.1.7.post4
qstylizer                     0.2.4
QtAwesome                     1.3.1
qtconsole                     5.6.1
QtPy                          2.4.2
referencing                   0.35.1
requests                      2.32.3
rfc3339-validator             0.1.4
rfc3986-validator             0.1.1
rich                          13.9.4
rope                          1.13.0
rpds-py                       0.21.0
Rtree                         1.3.0
rustworkx                     0.15.1
scipy                         1.14.1
scs                           3.2.7
Send2Trash                    1.8.3
setuptools                    75.6.0
six                           1.16.0
sniffio                       1.3.1
snowballstemmer               2.2.0
sortedcontainers              2.4.0
soupsieve                     2.6
Sphinx                        8.1.3
sphinxcontrib-applehelp       2.0.0
sphinxcontrib-devhelp         2.0.0
sphinxcontrib-htmlhelp        2.1.0
sphinxcontrib-jsmath          1.0.1
sphinxcontrib-qthelp          2.0.0
sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml 2.0.0
spyder                        6.0.2
spyder-kernels                3.0.1
spyder-notebook               0.6.1
stack-data                    0.6.3
superqt                       0.6.7
sympy                         1.13.3
tabulate                      0.9.0
terminado                     0.18.1
text-unidecode                1.3
textdistance                  4.6.3
three-merge                   0.1.1
tinycss2                      1.4.0
toml                          0.10.2
tomlkit                       0.13.2
tornado                       6.4.1
traitlets                     5.14.3
types-python-dateutil         2.9.0.20241003
typing_extensions             4.12.2
tzdata                        2024.2
ujson                         5.10.0
uri-template                  1.3.0
urllib3                       2.2.3
utility                       1.0
watchdog                      6.0.0
wcwidth                       0.2.13
webcolors                     24.11.1
webencodings                  0.5.1
websocket-client              1.8.0
whatthepatch                  1.0.7
wrapt                         1.17.0
yapf                          0.43.0
yarl                          1.18.0
zipp                          3.21.0

[dalthviz]

Hi @JacksonPhoong thank you for the report! Seems like you have a virtual environment with Spyder and your dependencies installed and also Spyder from our standalone installers. If you want to use spyder-notebook and be able to use the packages mentioned I think you would need to launch Spyder from a cmd/terminal with your env activated. The standalone version of Spyder doesn't support plugins installations for the moment and although it comes with some base predefined packages installed, to use other packages like (utility) you will need to set a custom interpreter over the preferences pointing to the env you have the packages installed. For more info on that you can check the FAQ page of the Spyder docs page could be useful: https://docs.spyder-ide.org/current/faq.html#using-spyder

Let us know if the info above helps!