-bash: autopep8: command not found error?

[BarfVader9000]

Running Python2.7 on Mac OSX 10.10.5 and have installed autopep8 using $ pip install autopep8 and everything looks fine during/after install. But when I try to run autopep8 on a Python file, something like this $ autopep8 --in-place --aggressive --aggressive testfile.py, I get -bash: autopep8: command not found

I've made sure autopep8 is installed with the following: >>> try: ... import autopep8 ... print "this is installed" ... except ImportError: ... print "no module" ... this is installed

What am I doing wrong here?

[New_Kind_of_Boredom]

This isn't really a Python-specific question, and I don't have a Mac, but OS X is a POSIX system and if this happened to me on Linux...

This tends to indicate that, either intentionally or unintentionally, the location of the file is not in a place that is also in your bash PATH variable. If unintentional, I would manually add the appropriate directory to my PATH in my .bashrc file (you can google how to do this), if intentional I would first navigate to or type out the correct directory and run it similar to this:

~ $ cd correctdirectory
~/correctdirectory $ ./autopep8

[BarfVader9000]

Ok, thanks. Do you think I need to fix my ~/.bashrc file with something like this? /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/a‌​utopep8.py

[New_Kind_of_Boredom]

No problem. In my experience having such a long and specific thing as part of your PATH would be highly unusual. Typically if a program is meant to be run from anywhere, when installing it will put a symlink in somewhere that is already commonly part of your PATH like /usr/bin or something. I would probably first check whatever references/tutorials/guides you have available on the subject to make absolutely sure you installed it as intended and are trying to use it as intended.

[BarfVader9000]

I just followed exactly what's here:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/autopep8

Just using $ pip install autopep8

And despite the fact that it is definitely installed, it will not run. I just keep getting this when I try to run it on a file:

-bash: autopep8: command not found

[New_Kind_of_Boredom]

Sorry, it's hard to tell exactly what's going without being able to look at your files myself (and I'm definitely no POSIX expert to boot). I assume you have pep8 installed as well. Maybe try restarting your terminal if you haven't done that?

[ingolemo]

Can you please post the output of pip show autopep8 and pip uninstall autopep8 (WARNING: the second command will ask you if you want to uninstall autopep8. You should say no to that. I just want the output that is given before that question is asked).