IPython console can't locate “backports.shutil_get_terminal_size” and won't load

Question

I\'m running Python2.7 on windows 10 doing env and most pkg management with Anaconda. After upgrading a number of packages, my ipython console now fails to start in any IDE

Answer 1

In case this helps anybody, the problem for me seemed to be having installed configparser with pip locally, and then trying to install everything else using conda. To fix:

pip uninstall configparser
# You may need to install configparser now using conda...
ipython
# No ImportError now.

It seems like the configparser install puts a backports package in the import namespace, which took precedence over the conda installed package.