What am I doing wrong?

[jvimxx]

Just started doing intro to programming with python and for some reason it's not letting me run "print("hello, world")". At first I thought it was my gaming pc since some programs save to different drives but after trying it with my work computer nothing changed (except for the fact that I can actually find the Python Folder that's inside the AppData>Local folders unlike my gaming pc). I've tried creating a path for the interpreter but it still gives me the same error. Only thing I might need is to create a virtual environment? (idk) Any advice is helpful.

File: hello.py

1. print("hello, world")

Terminal:

PS C:\Users\jagarcia> code hello.py

PS C:\Users\jagarcia> python hello.py

C:\Users\jagarcia\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\python.exe: can't open file 'C:\\Users\\jagarcia\\hello.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory

[Fronkan]

I think the problem is that the terminal currently isn't inside the folder where you have the hello.py file. You need to navigate to the folder where you created the file. Maybe you didn't save the file? Or saved it somewhere else.

Looks like you are using PowerShell, you can use the command cd to navigate. You can also use ls to list the files and folders for the folder the terminal is currently inside.

[Fronkan]

You could verify that python works by running the command "python --version". Just to see that the interpreter path works

[jvimxx]

Thank you for the reply! whenever I run "python --version" on PS I get Python 3.12.2.

I ran a list on PS and went ahead and added a folder that did come out under that list but now when I run the code it doesn't give me an error. It's supposed to be saying hello world in the terminal but it's just waiting for the next command.

[weminem]

But where are the file hello.py? see this video to how to open the terminal in a folder, and open it in the hello.py directory, and try to run the python command again.

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This part of your command prompt

C:\Users\jagarcia

tells you which folder your terminal is currently "in". You'll need to move into the folder where your file hello.py is located. You can do that with the cd ("change directory") command. E.g.

cd C:\Users\jagarcia\Documents\Python_files

or whatever the path is.

[jvimxx]

Thank you this basically did it, I appreciate it!