`Consoles > New console in environment` menu not listing all environments

[JennyVenton]

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Problem Description

First off thank you for putting together this version of Spyder, I'm enjoying the new features!

I've noticed that not all conda environments are listed in "Consoles-->New console in environment". Specifically, conda environments created outside of the default environment folder that have the same name are not all listed. For example, if conda list env gives:

                       /Users/myfolder/project1/venv
                       /Users/myfolder/project2/venv
                       /Users/myfolder/project3/mytestenv
base                 * /Users/myfolder/miniforge3
defaultlocationenv     /Users/myfolder/miniforge3/envs/myenv

Then clicking "Consoles-->New console in environment" lists the following environments:

Default / Conda: base
-----------------------
Conda: venv
Conda: mytestenv
Conda: defaultlocationenv

Only one venv is listed and it is the one in project1, the project2 venv is missing. Spyder is looking in all the right places to find environments, but then isn't listing environments with the same name.

What steps reproduce the problem?

1. Create two conda environments with the same name in two separate folders
2. In Spyder, click "Consoles-->New console in environment"
3. See that only one environment is there

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

If conda list env gives:

                       /Users/myfolder/project1/venv
                       /Users/myfolder/project2/venv
                       /Users/myfolder/project3/mytestenv
base                 * /Users/myfolder/miniforge3
defaultlocationenv     /Users/myfolder/miniforge3/envs/myenv

I'd expect clicking "Consoles-->New console in environment" to list:

Default / Conda: base
-----------------------
Conda: project1/venv
Conda: project2/venv
Conda: mytestenv
Conda: defaultlocationenv

Possible solutions might be to list the environment location folder too (i.e. project1/venv) or to use the conda env_prompt name from the local environment .condarc file if there is one.

Thank you in advance and apologies if I've missed something obvious!

Versions

• Spyder version: 6.0.3
• Python version: 3.12.8
• Qt version: 5.15.8
• PyQt version: 5.15.9
• Operating System name/version: macOS 14.6.1 (arm64)

Dependencies

# Mandatory:
aiohttp >=3.9.3                  :  3.11.10 (OK)
applaunchservices >=0.3.0        :  0.3.0 (OK)
asyncssh >=2.14.0,<3.0.0         :  2.19.0 (OK)
atomicwrites >=1.2.0             :  1.4.1 (OK)
chardet >=2.0.0                  :  5.2.0 (OK)
cloudpickle >=0.5.0              :  3.1.0 (OK)
cookiecutter >=1.6.0             :  2.6.0 (OK)
diff_match_patch >=20181111      :  20241021 (OK)
github >=2.3.0                   :  2.5.0 (OK)
importlib_metadata >=4.6.0       :  8.5.0 (OK)
intervaltree >=3.0.2             :  3.1.0 (OK)
IPython >=8.13.0,<9.0.0,!=8.17.1 :  8.30.0 (OK)
jedi >=0.17.2,<0.20.0            :  0.19.2 (OK)
jellyfish >=0.7                  :  1.1.3 (OK)
jsonschema >=3.2.0               :  4.23.0 (OK)
keyring >=17.0.0                 :  25.5.0 (OK)
nbconvert >=4.0                  :  7.16.4 (OK)
numpydoc >=0.6.0                 :  1.8.0 (OK)
parso >=0.7.0,<0.9.0             :  0.8.4 (OK)
pexpect >=4.4.0                  :  4.9.0 (OK)
pickleshare >=0.4                :  0.7.5 (OK)
psutil >=5.3                     :  6.1.0 (OK)
pygments >=2.0                   :  2.18.0 (OK)
pylint >=3.1,<4                  :  3.3.2 (OK)
pylint_venv >=3.0.2              :  3.0.4 (OK)
pyls_spyder >=0.4.0              :  0.4.0 (OK)
pylsp >=1.12.0,<1.13.0           :  1.12.0 (OK)
pylsp_black >=2.0.0,<3.0.0       :  2.0.0 (OK)
pyuca >=1.2                      :  1.2 (OK)
qdarkstyle >=3.2.0,<3.3.0        :  3.2.3 (OK)
qstylizer >=0.2.2                :  0.2.4 (OK)
qtawesome >=1.3.1,<1.4.0         :  1.3.1 (OK)
qtconsole >=5.6.1,<5.7.0         :  5.6.1 (OK)
qtpy >=2.4.0                     :  2.4.2 (OK)
rtree >=0.9.7                    :  1.3.0 (OK)
setuptools >=49.6.0              :  75.6.0 (OK)
sphinx >=0.6.6                   :  8.1.3 (OK)
spyder_kernels >=3.0.2,<3.1.0    :  3.0.2 (OK)
superqt >=0.6.2,<1.0.0           :  0.6.7 (OK)
textdistance >=4.2.0             :  4.6.2 (OK)
three_merge >=0.1.1              :  0.1.1 (OK)
watchdog >=0.10.3                :  6.0.0 (OK)
yarl >=1.9.4                     :  1.18.3 (OK)
zmq >=24.0.0                     :  26.2.0 (OK)

# Optional:
cython >=0.21                    :  3.0.11 (OK)
matplotlib >=3.0.0               :  3.10.0 (OK)
numpy >=1.7                      :  2.2.0 (OK)
pandas >=1.1.1                   :  2.2.3 (OK)
scipy >=0.17.0                   :  1.14.1 (OK)
sympy >=0.7.3                    :  1.13.3 (OK)

[ccordoba12]

Hey @JennyVenton, thanks for reporting. You said:

First off thank you for putting together this version of Spyder, I'm enjoying the new features!

Great! Thanks for your kind words, they are really important for us.

conda environments created outside of the default environment folder that have the same name are not all listed

This is a situation we haven't considered but thanks for bringing it up to our attention. We'll try to address it in 6.0.5, to be released in a couple of months.

[JennyVenton]

Great, thank you!