A quickie: python, terminal "print command not found"

python macos terminal bbedit textwrangler
Paul Patterson picture Paul Patterson · Nov 30, 2010 · Viewed 7.7k times · Source

Been using terminal to run python scripts written in textwrangler for about 18 months. Decided to look at possibility of moving to an IDE so downloaded a couple of trial versions. Just downloaded BBEedit and suddenly having problems executing script, either from BBedit or Textwrangler. The following code:

print "Please work"

for i in range(50):
    print i

yields the following error message:

/Users/paulpatterson/Documents/Python/Scripts/t.py: line 1: print: command not found
/Users/paulpatterson/Documents/Python/Scripts/t.py: line 3: syntax error near unexpected token `('
/Users/paulpatterson/Documents/Python/Scripts/t.py: line 3: `for i in range(50):'

Some files still work okay, but I'm struggling to figure out why others now aren't - not even sure if BBedit download has caused the problem. Can anyone help?

Answer

unutbu picture unutbu · Nov 30, 2010

Try putting 

#!/usr/bin/env python

at the top of the script. The program is trying to execute it like a shell script instead of running it through python.

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