Hello Julien, Oftentimes with IDEs, you will have to select the right Python interpreter for your project. Since you have installed NEST through conda, you should select the python interpreter you used while creating that. This link might help: http://docs.spyder-ide.org/current/faq.html#using-existing-environment Also, you will have to add the NEST site-packages path in your $PYTHONPATH environment variable somewhere in your IDE for it to be able to recognise NEST. I do not have any experience using Spyder, so I am not entirely sure how to do that. All the best! Pooja On 10. Nov 2021, at 16:00, Julien Ballbé <julien.ballbe@gmail.com<mailto:julien.ballbe@gmail.com>> wrote: Dear Sir, Dear Madam, I am currently trying to install NEST in order to be able to use it within an IDE, like Spyder. For the moment I am only able to do the following: open Terminal python3 import nest This works when I use it in the terminal of the computer, but when I open Spyder and execute the following: import nest neuron=nest.Create("iaf_psc_alpha") neuron.get() I get the following error message in the IPython console: runfile('/Users/julienballbe/NEST/untitled0.py', wdir='/Users/julienballbe/NEST') Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/julienballbe/NEST/untitled0.py", line 11, in <module> neuron=nest.Create("iaf_psc_alpha") AttributeError: module 'nest' has no attribute 'Create' I am using a Macbook pro M1Max, MacOS 12.0, Spyder 5.1.5, Python 3.9.7. I followed the instruction for building nest on your website (https://nest-simulator.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation/mac_install.ht…) and used your recommendation for M1 macs (https://nest-simulator.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation/conda_tips.html). I build Nest following your instruction, the only error I got was when I ran : (nest-simulator-dev) julienballbe@pclnrs241 NEST % make installcheck NEST Testsuite Results ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phase Tests Skipped Failures Errors Time ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 01 basetests 6 0 0 0 2.0 02 selftests 8 0 0 0 1.0 03 unittests 179 0 0 0 47.0 04 regressiontests 94 2 0 0 55.0 07 pynesttests 93 0 0 93 2.0 07 pynesttests nc 0 0 0 0 0.0 08 cpptests 30 0 0 0 0.0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 410 2 0 93 107.0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- THE NEST TESTSUITE DISCOVERED PROBLEMS The following tests failed | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_NodeCollection | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_aeif_lsodar | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_changing_tic_base | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_clopath_synapse | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_connect_all_to_all | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_connect_array_fixed_indegree | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_connect_array_fixed_outdegree | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_connect_arrays | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_connect_conngen | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_connect_fixed_indegree | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_connect_fixed_outdegree | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_connect_fixed_total_number | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_connect_one_to_one | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_connect_pairwise_bernoulli | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_connect_symmetric_pairwise_bernoulli | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_create | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_current_recording_generators | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_erfc_neuron | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_errors | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_events | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_facetshw_stdp | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_get_set | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_getconnections | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_getnodes | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_glif_cond | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_glif_psc | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_helper_functions | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_jonke_synapse | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_json | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_labeled_synapses | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_mc_neuron | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_multiple_synapses | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_nodeParametrization | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_onetooneconnect | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_parameter | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_parrot_neuron | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_parrot_neuron_ps | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_poisson_generator_rate_change | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_pp_psc_delta | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_pp_psc_delta_stdp | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_quantal_stp_synapse | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_random123 | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_random_parameter | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_rate_copy_model | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_rate_instantaneous_and_delayed | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_rate_neuron | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_rate_neuron_communication | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_recording_backend_ascii | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_recording_backend_memory | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_recording_backends | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_refractory | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_regression_issue-1034 | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_regression_issue-1409 | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_regression_issue-2069 | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_regression_issue-2125 | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_siegert_neuron | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_split_simulation | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_stack | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_status | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_stdp_multiplicity | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_stdp_nn_synapses | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_stdp_synapse | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_stdp_triplet_synapse | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_step_rate_generator | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_synapsecollection | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_threads | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_tsodyks2_synapse | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_urbanczik_synapse | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_visualization | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_vogels_sprekeler_synapse | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_weight_recorder | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_weights_as_lists | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_sp.test_conn_builder | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_sp.test_disconnect | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_sp.test_disconnect_multiple | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_sp.test_enable_multithread | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_sp.test_growth_curves | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_sp.test_sp_manager | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_sp.test_synaptic_elements | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_sp.test_update_synaptic_elements | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_spatial.test_SynapseCollection_distance | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_spatial.test_basics | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_spatial.test_connect_layers | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_spatial.test_connect_sliced | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_spatial.test_connection_with_elliptical_mask | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_spatial.test_create_spatial | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_spatial.test_dumping | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_spatial.test_layerNodeCollection | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_spatial.test_layer_GetStatus_SetStatus | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_spatial.test_plotting | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_spatial.test_rotated_rect_mask | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_spatial.test_selection_function_and_elliptical_mask | .share.nest.testsuite.pytests.test_spatial.test_spatial_distributions Please report test failures by creating an issue at https://github.com/nest/nest_simulator/issues ---------------------------------------------------------------------- make[3]: *** [CMakeFiles/installcheck] Error 1 make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/installcheck.dir/all] Error 2 make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/installcheck.dir/rule] Error 2 make: *** [installcheck] Error 2 Can you please help me with this? I stay at your disposal for any further information. Thank you for your help, Best feelings, Julien Ballbé -- Julien BALLBÉ Y SABATÉ Étudiant en thèse - PhD student Neurophysiology of Visual Computation Centre Giovanni Borelli - CNRS UMR 9010 Université de Paris 45 rue des Saint-Pères, 75006 Paris, France Tel: +33 6 79 03 40 35 _______________________________________________ NEST Users mailing list -- users@nest-simulator.org<mailto:users@nest-simulator.org> To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@nest-simulator.org<mailto:users-leave@nest-simulator.org> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH 52425 Juelich Sitz der Gesellschaft: Juelich Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Dueren Nr. HR B 3498 Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: MinDir Volker Rieke Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof. Dr.-Ing. 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