Updating qiskit doesn't update qiskit version from Spyder

Question

I installed qiskit using directions at https://qiskit.org/documentation/install.html I also have spyder installed -Spyder 3.3.6 | Python 3.7.7 64-bit | Qt 5.9.6 | PyQt5 5.9.2 | Windows 10

It works fine i.e. I am able to build from spyder and connect to ibm_q hardware ... when I run qiskit.__qiskit_version__ it was

{'qiskit-terra': '0.12.0',
 'qiskit-aer': '0.4.1',
 'qiskit-ignis': '0.2.0',
 'qiskit-ibmq-provider': '0.5.0',
 'qiskit-aqua': '0.6.5',
 'qiskit': '0.16.2'}

Then I had to update qiskit to 0.18

so I went to Conda prompt and did pip install qiskit the installation went through successfully - if I do conda list I see the following

:
qiskit                    0.18.0                   pypi_0    pypi
qiskit-aer                0.5.0                    pypi_0    pypi
qiskit-aqua               0.6.5                    pypi_0    pypi
qiskit-ibmq-provider      0.6.0                    pypi_0    pypi
qiskit-ignis              0.3.0                    pypi_0    pypi
qiskit-terra              0.13.0                   pypi_0    pypi
:

I then did a reset of spyder - inspite of that from the IPython console I still see the older version - 'qiskit': '0.16.2'

I ran print( qiskit.__qiskit_version__) in my script that runs inside Spyder I still see 'qiskit': '0.16.2' - please help what else needs to be done. What am I missing here? Thank you

Answer 1

Previously I had run the pip install qiskit --upgrade in the wrong conda environment.

So here is how I fixed it

conda activate <to_the_environment_that_Spyder_uses>

then run pip install qiskit --upgrade

After successful update completion - verify using conda list here is what i see now

:
qiskit                    0.18.0                   pypi_0    pypi
qiskit-aer                0.5.0                    pypi_0    pypi
qiskit-aqua               0.6.5                    pypi_0    pypi
qiskit-ibmq-provider      0.6.0                    pypi_0    pypi
qiskit-ignis              0.3.0                    pypi_0    pypi
qiskit-terra              0.13.0                   pypi_0    pypi
:

From inside the spyder script - for print( qiskit.__qiskit_version__) I see

{'qiskit-terra': '0.13.0', 'qiskit-aer': '0.5.0', 'qiskit-ignis': '0.3.0', 'qiskit-ibmq-provider': '0.6.0', 'qiskit-aqua': '0.6.5', 'qiskit': '0.18.0'}

from the IPython console, I get ...'qiskit': '0.18.0'} too