Unittest wont configure

[Cotterilla12]

Description

What steps will reproduce the problem?

I tried to configure the unittest and it will not let me try to configure it until this has been submitted

Traceback

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Cotte\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spyder_unittest\widgets\unittestgui.py", line 312, in configure
    versions = self.get_versions(use_cached=True)
  File "C:\Users\Cotte\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spyder_unittest\widgets\unittestgui.py", line 278, in get_versions
    executable = self.get_conf('executable', section='main_interpreter')
  File "C:\Users\Cotte\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spyder\api\config\mixins.py", line 77, in get_conf
    return self.CONFIGURATION.get(section, option, default)
  File "C:\Users\Cotte\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spyder\config\manager.py", line 461, in get
    value = config.get(section=section, option=option, default=default)
  File "C:\Users\Cotte\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spyder\config\user.py", line 980, in get
    return config.get(section=section, option=option, default=default)
  File "C:\Users\Cotte\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spyder\config\user.py", line 517, in get
    raise cp.NoOptionError(option, section)
configparser.NoOptionError: No option 'executable' in section: 'main_interpreter'

Versions

• Spyder version: 5.2.2
• Python version: 3.8.8
• 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                 :  1.7.2 (OK)
diff_match_patch >=20181111          :  20200713 (OK)
intervaltree >=3.0.2                 :  3.1.0 (OK)
IPython >=7.6.0;<8.0.0               :  7.29.0 (OK)
jedi >=0.17.2;<0.19.0                :  0.18.0 (OK)
jellyfish >=0.7                      :  0.9.0 (OK)
jsonschema >=3.2.0                   :  3.2.0 (OK)
keyring >=17.0.0                     :  23.1.0 (OK)
nbconvert >=4.0                      :  6.1.0 (OK)
numpydoc >=0.6.0                     :  1.1.0 (OK)
paramiko >=2.4.0                     :  2.7.2 (OK)
parso >=0.7.0;<0.9.0                 :  0.8.2 (OK)
pexpect >=4.4.0                      :  4.8.0 (OK)
pickleshare >=0.4                    :  0.7.5 (OK)
psutil >=5.3                         :  5.8.0 (OK)
pygments >=2.0                       :  2.10.0 (OK)
pylint >=2.5.0                       :  2.9.6 (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                         :  1.10.0 (OK)
rtree >=0.9.7                        :  0.9.7 (OK)
setuptools >=49.6.0                  :  58.0.4 (OK)
sphinx >=0.6.6                       :  4.2.0 (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                             :  22.3.0 (OK)

# Optional:
cython >=0.21                        :  0.29.24 (OK)
matplotlib >=2.0.0                   :  3.5.0 (OK)
numpy >=1.7                          :  1.19.2 (OK)
pandas >=1.1.1                       :  1.3.4 (OK)
scipy >=0.17.0                       :  1.6.2 (OK)
sympy >=0.7.3                        :  1.9 (OK)

# Spyder plugins:
spyder_unittest.unittestplugin 0.5.1 :  0.5.1 (OK)

[ccordoba12]

Hey @Cotterilla12, thanks for reporting. Please close Spyder, open the Anaconda prompt and run there

conda update anaconda
conda install spyder=5.3.3

That should solve your problem.

[jitseniesen]

I am closing this in the hope that updating Spyder as suggested indeed solved the problem.