Mayavi doesn't run from within Spyder: complains about “ValueError: API 'QString' …”

Question

I am unable to run/use Mayavi library from within Spyder IDE. I have described the problem below. Any help will be very useful. (Thank you very much in advance.)

Answer 1

According to this and this the error can be fixed by activating the Ignore API change errors (sip.setapi) checkbox in Preferences > Console > External Modules.

I have tested that it does work with Spyder 2.1.11.