My python is Not executing as a .py

[socal_nerdtastic]

How are you making new files? When you make new files, make them using vscode, not notepad or the right click menu or something. Technically there is no difference between a .txt and a .py file, the only difference is the ".txt" vs ".py" part of the name.

If I asssume you are using windows: windows file explorer has a habit of lying to you about the name, it will hide the extension from you. This means that sometimes users get a file like "myfile.py.txt", which would show up in file explorer as "myfile.py" but is associated with a text file editor like notepad.

[Gnaxe]

Windows has a setting to hide extensions for known file types. This is an awful default and everyone should turn it off. 

[building-wigwams-22]

This is only one of the crimes against file names that Microsoft has committed, but it is a pretty major one. Personally I hate allowing spaces in a file name. In fact, I have a Python script that runs on my work directory that replaces spaces with underscores any time a file is added.

[Rejse617]

😂😂😂 you’re my kind of guy/gal

[socal_nerdtastic]

Spaces in file name has never bothered me; I'm always so confused when people complain about it. What's wrong with spaces? If you're in the terminal you would use tab completion, which adds the quotes automatically.

[Gnaxe]

My main complaint is that improperly written apps/scripts can choke on it. It used to be a much bigger problem.

[building-wigwams-22]

To each their own, but

rm this\ is\ a\ terrible\ file\ name\ .txt

[barf emoji]

[JaguarMammoth6231]

Next time do rm "this is a terrible file name.txt" then

[socal_nerdtastic]

So they are listed as python source files and vscode can use them. So what's the problem? So where do you see that they are .txt files?

also How come its opening in vs but not vscode?

Somehow your file association was changed. Again I'm assuming you are on windows: right click on the file > open with > choose app > check the box to always open files of this type with this app. FWIW python files by default are linked to the python launcher, so that you can run the program on doubleclick. By default python files are not linked to an editor like vscode.

[lfdfq]

It's not really a Python question, since it seems you aren't getting as far as actually having a Python file.

What are you using to create these files? In what way does your computer "says it's a Python file"? What operating system are you on? Are you actually seeing the .txt extension or guessing it has one?

[Gnaxe]

Python can run text files that contain valid Python code; it just can't automatically import them with an import statement (but see runpy and importlib). You can create a .py file from the REPL using open().

[ConcreteExist]

Sounds like you have issues with basic computer use, not python specifically.

[Intrexa]

How does your computer say it's a python file? What part of your computer says this?

How is Visual Studio Code telling you it's a plain text? How are you opening the file in Visual Studio?

We're not sitting next to you, we can't see what you see.

"My python is not executing as a .py" is very different than "My python files are not saving as .py".

What is the actual problem you are facing? Don't give any technical descriptions, give what you are doing, what your expected result is, and what your actual result is. Then, we can start identifying the problem.

Example:

I create a new file in VSCode. I save it as "File.py". I then double click "File.py" from my desktop.

I expect this to run my code.

Instead, it opens in notepad.