[FIXED] Issues Opening Spyder after Conda updating

Issue

I've been coding in Jupyter primarily due to a professors preference so when I opened Sypder to use recently it wanted me to update it up and I did via Conda and now it is giving me this when I try to open it. I tried to force Sypder back to the previous version but no luck. Can someone help??

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\cyrra\anaconda3\Scripts\spyder-script.py", line 10, in 
sys.exit(main())
File "C:\Users\cyrra\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spyder\app\start.py", line 210, in main
from spyder.app import mainwindow
File "C:\Users\cyrra\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spyder\app\mainwindow.py", line 119, in 
from spyder.utils.environ import WinUserEnvDialog
File "C:\Users\cyrra\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spyder\utils\environ.py", line 19, in 
from spyder.plugins.variableexplorer.widgets.collectionseditor import (
File "C:\Users\cyrra\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spyder\plugins\variableexplorer\widgets\collectionseditor.py", line 57, in 
from spyder.plugins.variableexplorer.widgets.collectionsdelegate import (
File "C:\Users\cyrra\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spyder\plugins\variableexplorer\widgets\collectionsdelegate.py", line 31, in 
from spyder.plugins.variableexplorer.widgets.objectexplorer.attribute_model \
File "C:\Users\cyrra\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spyder\plugins\variableexplorer\widgets\objectexplorer\__init__.py", line 23, in 
from .objectexplorer import ObjectExplorer
File "C:\Users\cyrra\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spyder\plugins\variableexplorer\widgets\objectexplorer\objectexplorer.py", line 33, in 
from spyder.plugins.editor.widgets.codeeditor import CodeEditor
File "C:\Users\cyrra\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spyder\plugins\editor\widgets\codeeditor.py", line 70, in 
from spyder.plugins.editor.panels import (ClassFunctionDropdown,
File "C:\Users\cyrra\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spyder\plugins\editor\panels\__init__.py", line 13, in 
from .codefolding import FoldingPanel
File "C:\Users\cyrra\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spyder\plugins\editor\panels\codefolding.py", line 32, in 
from spyder.plugins.editor.panels.utils import (
File "C:\Users\cyrra\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spyder\plugins\editor\panels\utils.py", line 15, in 
import textdistance
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'textdistance'

Thank you!

Solution

(Spyder maintainer here) This error was caused by an incorrectly packaged version of Spyder but it's fixed now.

To get the fix, please open the Anaconda Prompt and run there

conda update spyder

If that doesn't work, please run

conda remove --force spyder
conda install spyder=4.2.1

That should fix your problem.

Answered By - Carlos Cordoba