Hi Jed, Thanks for the reply. I checked out the path to the .exe and it was set to a version of python.exe installed with winpython. I downloaded a separate file so I could set it up as you suggested, C:\Python27\python.exe. Unfortunately, this gives the same error as I described in the original post.
This error has survived through multiple reinstalls, so it seems like it must be something that persists in Windows after Python and Spyder have been removed. Any ideas on where to look for this type of thing? Thanks for your help. Larry On Sunday, June 16, 2013 8:17:13 AM UTC-4, Larry M wrote: > > I have been using Spyder on my desktop for about a week and was able to > get some small programs running. Then I started to get an error that says > "NameError: name 'runfile' is not defined " whenever I run a script from > the editor. Even the simplest script will do this. However, when I use > "run selection or current block of lines" from Spyder that works. When I > try to use the debugger, I get "NameError: name 'debugfile' is not > defined." I have removed Spyder and Python, and then reinstalled using > Python(x,y). I even tried reinstalling Spyder using Anaconda and > WinPython. Spyder gives the same errors after the reinstalls. > > At the same time this was going on, I used Anaconda to install Spyder on > my laptop, and that seems to work fine--the NameErrors do not appear. It > seems that I inadvertently changed something on my desktop that persists > after a reinstall. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks, > > Larry > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "spyder" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/spyderlib. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
