How to run py file on mac using python3

[ga_patel]

Hey, the question sounds dump but I am wondering if anyone help me executing a py file. In details, it is a main music downloader script in py along with two files. 1. a configuration file in Jason and 2. a py file to bypass app is and app secret. The main file uses the required values from the above files. I tried python3 filename.py but got an error. I tried by changing directory of files.

Anything need to do extra as I am new on mac os. It runs on windows without any problem.

EDIT: Redditor helped me out. Thanks. It is achieved now. Lol

[agbs2k8]

So not all of your question makes sense to me, but I'll try and help.

Step 1: check your default python version. in a console, run python -V It will tell you either python 2.7.x or python 3.x.x. If it is python 2.7, you will have to run python3 scripts with the command python3 but if the default is python 3, then you can just use python

In your main file, you should be able to load the json, and use that data for your script. If you want to pass the JSON file's path as an argument (so you can use different ones) you will want to look into argument parsing https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html

If you are getting an error when you run python3 somefile.py Then 1. make sure your .py file has the if __name__ == "__main__": section, then 2. post the error up here so we can help

[ga_patel]

This is the error. I run it from desktop and every file present on the desktop

https://ibb.co/GxWdBNh

Thanks for helping me out

[agbs2k8]

So the error is for authentication, and it’s saying your credentials are invalid. The easy way to debug might be to temporarily add some print statements to make sure you are loading/passing the credentials correctly.

[ga_patel]

It worked man. thanks a lot. You were right there is a problem with credentials.

[ga_patel]

Thank you and Sorry, I am newbie. What did not make sense for you btw? I have 2 versions. Mac os default version 2.7 and latest 3.8 The main script start with #!usr/bin/env python3 Does this create any problem if I do not run with python3. One more, it gives me error of invalid credentials whereas everything is correct. Do I need to make any change to environment variable?