I was trying learning about logging in python for the first time today. i discovered when i tried running my code from VS Code, i received this error message
/bin/sh: 1: python: not found however when i run the code directly from my terminal, i get the expected result. I need help to figure out the reason for the error message when i run the code directly from vscode
I've tried checking the internet for a suitable solution, no fix yet. i will appreciate your responses.
Python Interpreter to be set up. Many ways mentioned in the vs code documentation https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/environments, here easiest would be to open command palette and search for python interpreter and there you can enter the path of python/python3 installed.
You can use shortcuts "Ctrl+Shift+P" and type "Python: Select Interperter" to choose the python interpreter.
You can also click the button in the lower right.
The error message you are receiving indicates that the "python" executable is not found in the PATH environment variable of the terminal you are using from within Visual Studio Code.
Add the location of the Python executable to the PATH environment variable in your terminal.
Specify the full path to the Python executable in your Visual Studio Code terminal.
You can find the full path to the Python executable by running the command "which python" in your terminal.
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I can run python in the terminal but it shows that the python interpreter is not found and when I run the file it shows the python path in your debug configuration is invalid.
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when i click on select python interpreter, it shows this, and yes the file path is completely valid
python works perfectly fine in terminal
Try the Python Extension in VS-Code. Go on the left to "Extensions", type "Python", go for the first one or which ever you like (I chose the first). You´ll probably need to select your python interpreter again after this
In Visual Studio Code, I have installed Python and Code Runner to be able to run my Python code. I get an error whenever I try to run my Python code. When I press "Select Python interpreter" in the purple bar below, I then try to choose one(Python 3.8.1 32-bit), but another error comes up again saying "Failed to set 'pythonPath'.....".
The error when trying to run the code says: 'python' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
Please help, what should I do?
The reason is that in VS Code, as a code editor, it needs to find python installed outside VS Code to run python code. Therefore, we need to ensure that python is available:
Please check whether the python environment variable contains "Python 3.8.1" you are using. And please reopen VS Code after setting.
Reference: python environment variable.
This might be because python is not added to your path.
To edit your system variables do the following:
Search for system variables in your win search bar. This should open this window.
Click on Environment Variables and then select Path from System Variables.
Click on Edit. Now add a field there containing the complete address to your Python Script folder like this.
The path should look like this
C:\Users\{your username}\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\Scripts\
Click on ok and check by typing python in your vscode integrated terminal.
Quick question regarding the installation of python. I've installed Python 3.7.7 using the Windows 64 bit installer. I also had the installer update the PATH variable for me.
But when doing a quick check with the command-line using the command: "python --version", I'm getting nothing.
Nothing. No error, just an endline.
User Path variable System Path variable command prompt
Edit(1):
By going to the directory with python.exe within the terminal using the command "cd C:\Users\Andrei\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\" and then using python --version. The command works. I'm receiving the python version 3.7.7 message.
In spite of the path variable pointing to the same folder though, the command still doesn't work when I'm outside it.
A very weird thing I realized is that the command "py" does have some output. Regardless of what directory I'm in.pyOutput
So that command works, while python --version doesn't. In spite of python --version working when I'm within the actual directory of python.exe.
I would assume that while I'm outside the python directory, there's some other executable that the system is accessing first? Regardless, I need all the functionality of python to work as I'm trying to get an external program to work with it and within that program, I'm getting the error that python is not installed. "Download python and add it to the path variable" it still says...
Edit(2)(SOLVED!):
There must've been some other folder within the path that had a python command that was overriding this one, as now it works and all I changed was the position of the folder within the path variable. It previously sat lowest, now it is the first one. And the command always works as intended, regardless of what directory I'm in.previous position new position
First, be sure you added the path to environment variable correctly
for testing, you can open your terminal in your path that you added to the environment variable and run python --version again.
If that not work for you try these solutions:
Close your terminal and open it again
or
try python3 --version instead of python --version
It's probably because you don't have Python installed through the Microsoft Store. You need to write "python" in the cmd and then a Microsoft Store window will pop up and let you download it.
Error (Translated): The command "ffplay" is either misspelled or
could not be found.
I have the newest version of vsc installed and the path for the cmd is set to the original path "C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe". Both terminals have the same path.
Typing in 'python' works on both terminals, while plenty of other commands only work in the external cmd.
Why am i getting this error?
This problem also prevents me from using the module subprocess as every command is just 'not found'.
I noticed that your terminal window has a specific title, which means that you are not using the system default terminal. If you want to use the same environment variable in vscode, a common practice is to start vscode from that terminal, and the vscode that starts this way inherits its environment variable. Enter "code" in the terminal prompt and return to start vscode
I seem to have problem launching python from command line. I tried various things with no success.
Problem: When trying to run python from the command line, there is no response i.e. I do not get message about 'command not found' and console does not launch. Only option to open python console is to run C:\Python34\python.exe directly. Running using python command does not work even when in the python directory but python.exe launches. Issue with the launching this way is that python console is launched in new window. This whole problem is present only on one machine while on my other machine I am able to run python correctly and console launches in the command prompt window from which the python command was executed.
PATH is correctly set to
C:\Python34\;C:\Python34\Scripts;...
and where python correctly returns C:\Python34\python.exe. I verified that running other commands imported through PATH (such as javac) run correctly.
Things I tried:
Completely re-installing python both with x86 and x64 python installations with no success.
Copy installation from my second machine and manually set the path variables - again no success.
Can anyone hint how to resolve this behavior?
(Additional info: Win 8.1 x64, python 3.4.2)
Issue resolved. Since no feasible solution was found in 2 days, I decided to wipe all keys containing 'python' from registry as well as some files that were not parts of other programs. This resolved the issue after re-installing python.
If anyone finds the true cause of this misbehavior and other - less brutal - solution, please write it here for future reference.
Recent Python installer has option to add PATH.
If you didn't use it, you can register directory where python.exe is to PATH environment variable.
But I prefer py launcher. It may be installed via Python 3.3 or 3.4.
With it, you can start Python via py or py -3.4.
See https://docs.python.org/3/using/windows.html#python-launcher-for-windows