Spyder hangs when saving .rst files

[ubaldot]

Issue Report Checklist

• Searched the issues page for similar reports
• Read the relevant sections of the Spyder Troubleshooting Guide and followed its advice
• Reproduced the issue after updating with conda update spyder (or pip, if not using Anaconda)
• Could not reproduce inside jupyter qtconsole (if console-related)
• Tried basic troubleshooting (if a bug/error)
  • Restarted Spyder
  • Reset preferences with spyder --reset
  • Reinstalled the latest version of Anaconda
  • Tried the other applicable steps from the Troubleshooting Guide
• Completed the Problem Description, Steps to Reproduce and Version sections below

Problem Description

If I create a new file in Spyder and I try to save it as .rst nothing happens.

What steps reproduce the problem?

1. Open Spyder
2. Create a new file
3. Save it as .rst

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

The file shall be saved but some processes seem to hang while saving.

Versions

• Spyder version: 5.2.2 None
• Python version: 3.9.12 64-bit
• Qt version: 5.9.7
• PyQt5 version: 5.9.2
• Operating System: Windows 10

Dependencies

Mandatory:

atomicwrites >=1.2.0 : 1.4.0 (OK)
chardet >=2.0.0 : 4.0.0 (OK)
cloudpickle >=0.5.0 : 2.0.0 (OK)
cookiecutter >=1.6.0 : 1.7.3 (OK)
diff_match_patch >=20181111 : 20200713 (OK)
intervaltree >=3.0.2 : 3.1.0 (OK)
IPython >=7.6.0;<8.0.0 : 7.31.1 (OK)
jedi >=0.17.2;<0.19.0 : 0.18.1 (OK)
jellyfish >=0.7 : 0.9.0 (OK)
jsonschema >=3.2.0 : 4.4.0 (OK)
keyring >=17.0.0 : 23.4.0 (OK)
nbconvert >=4.0 : 6.4.4 (OK)
numpydoc >=0.6.0 : 1.4.0 (OK)
paramiko >=2.4.0 : 2.8.1 (OK)
parso >=0.7.0;<0.9.0 : 0.8.3 (OK)
pexpect >=4.4.0 : 4.8.0 (OK)
pickleshare >=0.4 : 0.7.5 (OK)
psutil >=5.3 : 5.9.0 (OK)
pygments >=2.0 : 2.11.2 (OK)
pylint >=2.5.0 : 2.14.5 (OK)
pyls_spyder >=0.4.0 : 0.4.0 (OK)
pylsp >=1.3.2;<1.4.0 : 1.3.3 (OK)
pylsp_black >=1.0.0 : 1.0.0 (OK)
qdarkstyle =3.0.2 : 3.0.2 (OK)
qstylizer >=0.1.10 : 0.1.10 (OK)
qtawesome >=1.0.2 : 1.0.3 (OK)
qtconsole >=5.2.1;<5.3.0 : 5.2.2 (OK)
qtpy >=1.5.0 : 2.0.1 (OK)
rtree >=0.9.7 : 0.9.7 (OK)
setuptools >=49.6.0 : 63.4.1 (OK)
sphinx >=0.6.6 : 5.0.2 (OK)
spyder_kernels >=2.2.1;<2.3.0 : 2.2.1 (OK)
textdistance >=4.2.0 : 4.2.1 (OK)
three_merge >=0.1.1 : 0.1.1 (OK)
watchdog >=0.10.3 : 2.1.6 (OK)
zmq >=17 : 23.2.0 (OK)

Optional:

cython >=0.21 : 0.29.30 (OK)
matplotlib >=2.0.0 : 3.5.2 (OK)
numpy >=1.7 : 1.21.5 (OK)
pandas >=1.1.1 : 1.4.3 (OK)
scipy >=0.17.0 : 1.7.3 (OK)
sympy >=0.7.3 : 1.10.1 (OK)

[ccordoba12]

Hey @Ubaldo79, thanks for reporting. I can't reproduce this error in our latest version (5.3.3).

Since it's still not available in Anaconda, you have two options:

1. Use our Windows installer, which you can find here.

2. Create a new environment with conda-forge packages. For that, please close Spyder, open the Anaconda Prompt and run the following commands there:

    conda create -n spyder-cf -c conda-forge spyder
    conda activate spyder-cf
    spyder
   

Let us know if it works for you.

[ubaldot]

Perhaps I should clone the current virtual environment? Otherwise I will have to re-install all the packages that I manually installed.

[ccordoba12]

You can try with our Windows installer first, which is self-contained and won't break your Anaconda installation. If saving rst files fails with it, then we'll know that this is still a problem that we need to address.

[dalthviz]

Just in case, could this be related with having the autoformat on save functionality enabled when saving a file that is not a .py?

[ccordoba12]

Yeah, that's a great guess! Did you try it?

[dalthviz]

I was checking also an old issue with .html and the one with .pyx files and seems like that is what is causing the problem. Adding an extra validation to only trigger the autoformat for python files seems like fixes this too 👍