Alt + Return runs the cell in the currently opened file instead of the last cell

[positr0nium]

Problem Description

When debugging you often run a cell, that imports code from a module that you are modifying, i.e. file A imports file B and file B potentially contains a bug that needs to be fixed. When pressing alt+return, previously the last cell from file A was executed, even if file B is open in the editor. This seems to have changed. Now alt+return tries to find the cell in file B (which in many cases doesn't exist).

What steps reproduce the problem?

1. Create two files, where one imports the other.
2. Run a cell in the first file.
3. Switch to the second file and hit alt+return

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

The expected output is the output from file A. Instead I see:

%runcell -i 238 Path/To/File/B.py
This command failed to be executed because an error occurred while trying to get the cell code from Spyder's editor.The error was:


An exception has occurred, use %tb to see the full traceback.

RuntimeError: Cell 238 not found.

[positr0nium]

🙏

[ccordoba12]

Hey @positr0nium, thanks for reporting and sorry for the late response. I was able to easily reproduce this problem following your instructions above (thanks for them!).

We'll fix it in our next version (6.0.4), to be released in a few weeks.

[positr0nium]

Thanks :)