IPython console can't locate "backports.shutil_get_terminal_size" and won't load
Solution 1
Try this
conda config --add channels conda-forge
conda install backports.shutil_get_terminal_size
Solution 2
I am on CentOS 7, and I needed to change my terminal.py as shown below.
On the import statements I messed around with the prefixes and got it to work -
import os
import sys
import warnings
try:
from backports import get_terminal_size as _get_terminal_size
except ImportError:
# use backport on Python 2
from shutil_backports import get_terminal_size as _get_terminal_size
Solution 3
According to this thread this is due to a bug in conda which leads to a conflict with pip installs and can be solved with a force re-install. For the thread author, $ conda install --force ipython
solved the issue, for me it was $ conda install --force backports
.
Solution 4
- Works for Anaconda Python version Anaconda2-4.2.0-Linux-x86_64.sh
- Edit the file and get rid the "try" and "except" import statements
- Add in the new import statement
- Update config parser => ./conda install configparser
Install nbbrowserpdf => .pip install nbbrowserpdf
vim +22 /home/alienone/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/utils/terminal.py
from backports import shutil_get_terminal_size as _get_terminal_size
Comments
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Rob Truxal almost 2 years
I'm running Python2.7 on windows 10 doing env and most pkg management with Anaconda. After upgrading a number of packages, my ipython console now fails to start in any IDE or at the console. When I attempt to run it at the console I get this error:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Anaconda3\Scripts\ipython-script.py", line 3, in <module> import IPython File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\IPython\__init__.py", line 48, in <module> from .core.application import Application File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\IPython\core\application.py", line 24, in <module> from IPython.core import release, crashhandler File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\IPython\core\crashhandler.py", line 28, in <module> from IPython.core import ultratb File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\IPython\core\ultratb.py", line 121, in <module> from IPython.utils.terminal import get_terminal_size File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\IPython\utils\terminal.py", line 27, in <module> import backports.shutil_get_terminal_size ImportError: No module named backports.shutil_get_terminal_size
The first thing I tried to do was:
pip install --upgrade backports.shutil_get_terminal_size
output:
Requirement already up-to-date: backports.shutil_get_terminal_size in c:\anaconda3\lib\site-packages
I've uninstalled and reinstalled ipython with both
conda uninstall ipython conda install ipython
and
pip uninstall ipython pip install ipython
Still won't work. Help please!