I am running Spyder 5.5.1 on Linux. After start-up i just create a variable x=1 in the console. x appears correctly on the variable explorer. Then I restart the kernel (with Ctrl + .). x still appears on the variable explorer. This looks like a bug to me. Please please help me.. I love Spyder do not wanna switch to PyCharm!!! If for example i tick and untick "Exclude private variables" then 'x' disappears from variable explorer. Continue reading...