Autocomplete only works when ran as root

[EmielSchmeink]

Issue Report Checklist

• [x] Searched the issues page for similar reports
• [x] Read the relevant sections of the Spyder Troubleshooting Guide and followed its advice
• [x] Reproduced the issue after updating with conda update spyder (or pip, if not using Anaconda)
• [x] Could not reproduce inside jupyter qtconsole (if console-related)
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  • [x] Restarted Spyder
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  • [x] Reinstalled the latest version of Anaconda
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• [x] Completed the Problem Description, Steps to Reproduce and Version sections below

Problem Description

Autocomplete in the IDE only works when ran as root. The console works fine.

What steps reproduce the problem?

1. Open spyder as a non-root user
2. Type "imp" and press tab
3. "imp" isn't autocompleted to import

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

That spyder correctly autocompletes the typed statement, as it does when spyder is ran as root.

Versions

• Spyder version: 3.3.4
• Python version: 3.7.3
• Qt version: 5.12.3
• PyQt version: 5.12.2
• Operating System name/version: Ubuntu 19.04, Linux 5.0.0

Dependencies

IPython >=4.0 : 7.5.0 (OK) cython >=0.21 : 0.29.7 (OK) jedi >=0.9.0 : 0.13.3 (OK) matplotlib >=2.0.0: 2.2.3 (OK) nbconvert >=4.0 : 5.5.0 (OK) numpy >=1.7 : 1.16.3 (OK) pandas >=0.13.1 : 0.24.2 (OK) psutil >=0.3 : 5.5.1 (OK) pycodestyle >=2.3 : 2.4.0 (OK) pyflakes >=0.6.0 : 2.0.0 (OK) pygments >=2.0 : 2.3.1 (OK) pylint >=0.25 : 2.2.2 (OK) qtconsole >=4.2.0 : 4.4.3 (OK) rope >=0.9.4 : 0.10.5 (OK) sphinx >=0.6.6 : 1.8.5 (OK) sympy >=0.7.3 : 1.4 (OK)

[ccordoba12]

Sorry, this looks like an installation issue. We recommend you to use Anaconda instead or wait until Spyder 4, which will have much better code completion facilities.