python file is not defined_Python Error name 'runfile' is not defined in Spyder

The reason for the cause of the issue is that spyder (3.0.0b7 in my case) fails to load the following file (the path is OSX path)

/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/site-packages/spyder/widgets/externalshell/sitecustomize.py

So when the above file is failed to load, the following function "runfile" from sitecustomize.py got failed to load as well.

def runfile(filename, args=None, wdir=None, namespace=None, post_mortem=False):

"""

Run filename

args: command line arguments (string)

wdir: working directory

post_mortem: boolean, whether to enter post-mortem mode on error

"""

try:

filename = filename.decode('utf-8')

except (UnicodeError, TypeError, AttributeError):

# UnicodeError, TypeError --> eventually raised in Python 2

# AttributeError --> systematically raised in Python 3

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Thus, python not finding the function runfile which is needed to run the .py file inside the spyder IDE and spew out "NameError: name 'runfile' is not defined"

The fix for me is to add that path into the PYTHONPATH manager as follow

My spyder installation is a standalone and not part of the Anaconda package since I don't want to have another python installation on top of 2.x and 3.x python installation. Maybe, that's why spyder --reset and spyder --default to set them back to default does not work for me.