[FIXED] Ipython has no attribute get_ipython() on debug mode only

Issue

I'm having an issue in pycharm while running my debugger : "AttributeError: module 'IPython' has no attribute 'get_ipython'"

The problem is that I don't know what IPython is, I'm not using it, and when i clink on the first link in the error log, I arrive in a file that is not even mine.

More, if I run my code without debugger, this error do not appear.

Here is the full trace :

It looks like this come from matplotlip but it doesn't really help me.

Thank you for any help

Solution

I'm also very annoyed about this bug so I tried some stuff and found a workaround (not clean though...).

I work with venv environments so I just changed the file/code which throws the error.

Go to backend_bases.py. For me it's: \venv\Lib\site-packages\matplotlib\backend_bases.py. Or just click on the last stacktrace.

In line 1744 you find this code:

if sys.modules.get("IPython") is None:
    return

Change it and add an else: return statement.

if sys.modules.get("IPython") is None:
    return
else:
    return

When running without debugger the code does the same so I think that's ok. I don't get an error anymore with this change.

Answered By - Andrej