Spyder Help Tab Crash

[DominicAntonacci]

Description of your problem

Spyder crashes (segmentation fault) when trying to automatically display the help documentation for plt.plot() when typed in the console.

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Open a fresh Spyder. Ensure the the help documentation is enabled for the iPython console (Tools -> Preferences -> Help -> Check IPython console.
2. In the IPython console type import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
3. Next, type plt.plot(

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I expect to see the plot documentation. Spyder instead crashes.

Please provide any additional information below
This seems to be something specific to changing the name of the import. The following example does not crash
import matplotlib.pyplot
matplotlib.pyplot.plot(

It does not trigger on all imports. The following example does not crash

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.figure()

It does not trigger in the editor.

Versions and main components

• Spyder Version: 3.2.4
• Python Version: 3.6.3 64 bits
• Qt Version: 5.6.2
• PyQt Version: 5.6
• Operating system: Linux Mint 17.3 MATE

Dependencies

Please go to the menu entry Help > Optional Dependencies (or
Help > Dependencies), press the button Copy to clipboard
and paste the contents below:

IPython >=4.0 : 6.2.1 (OK)
cython >=0.21 : 0.27.3 (OK)
jedi >=0.9.0 : 0.11.0 (OK)
nbconvert >=4.0 : 5.3.1 (OK)
numpy >=1.7 : 1.13.3 (OK)
pandas >=0.13.1 : 0.21.0 (OK)
psutil >=0.3 : 5.4.1 (OK)
pycodestyle >=2.3: 2.3.1 (OK)
pyflakes >=0.6.0 : 1.6.0 (OK)
pygments >=2.0 : 2.2.0 (OK)
pylint >=0.25 : 1.7.4 (OK)
qtconsole >=4.2.0: 4.3.1 (OK)
rope >=0.9.4 : 0.10.7 (OK)
sphinx >=0.6.6 : 1.6.3 (OK)
sympy >=0.7.3 : 1.1.1 (OK)

[ccordoba12]

This is a duplicate of issue #5514 and it'll be fixed in our 3.2.5 version, to be released in the next few days.